The Predictive Ability of the Future Time Perspective of Academic Procrastination Among Yarmouk University Students
Authors
Riham Athaar Bani Khalid, Faisal Khalil Al-RabeeFiles
Abstract
The study aimed to reveal the predictive ability of the dimensions of the future tense perspective on academic procrastination among Yarmouk University students, as well as to determine whether their level differs according to the variables of gender, academic specialization, and academic year. The descriptive correlational approach was used among a sample consisting of (700) male and female students from Yarmouk University. The results showed that the inevitable present is the most widespread dimension among the particebants, followed by the enjoyable present dimension, followed by the negative past dimension, then the positive past dimension, lastly the future dimension. The results also indicated that the dimensions of the future tense perspective explain a (19.4%) of the variance in the level of academic procrastination, followed by the positive present, which (2.5%), then The negative past (2.1%), and finally the future and its interpretation (1.3%).
