ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SELF-EFFICACY AND ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION MIDWIFERY STUDENTS

<p>The tendency to procrastinate tasks can potentially become habitual and can lead to procrastination on the next lesson, so this is a severe problem quite serious for students. Self-efficacy determines how students feel, think, and motivate themselves. Self-efficacy is an important thing that students must own. Students with high self-efficacy can learn the material quickly and feel confident when doing a task. This research examined the relationship between self-efficacy and academic procrastination. Midwifery Students, Medical Faculty of Universitas Sebelas Maret. The research method was an analytical observational design using a cross-sectional approach and a total sampling technique. Ninety-one students were analyzed as a sample. The collecting data used the scale of self-efficacy and academic procrastination. The self-efficacy instrument had a reliability value of Alpha Cronbach (?) 0.808 and a value of Corrected Item Total Correlation 0.304 - 0.517. The academic procrastination scale had an Alpha Cronbach reliability value (?) of 0.915; the total item coefficient was 0.30-0.58. The bivariate analysis used the Spearman correlation technique. Based on the study, the scale of self-efficacy and academic procrastination, the value of the correlation coefficient of r = -0.617 and p = 0.000 (p <0.05), which showed a significant negative relationship between the two variables, indicated by the higher the self-efficacy, the lower the academic procrastination, and vice versa, the lower self-efficacy, the higher the student's academic procrastination. The level of students’ self-efficacy was in the medium category, with a percentage of 76.9%, and also were classified as having a medium level of academic procrastination, as many as 72.5%. There is a significant correlation between self-efficacy and academic procrastination.</p>