Variables Affecting Academic Procrastination Among Nursing Students

Background: The deliberate postponement of significant academic assignments with due dates is known as academic procrastination.The undesirable habit known as procrastination is the inability to start or finish a task within the allotted time, which results in detrimental effects on students' future employment, as well as stress, guilt, poor academic achievement, and low self-esteem.Method: Descriptive Research design was adopted for a study to assess the Variables influencing Nursing students' Academic Procrastination at selected Nursing college of Bhopal, M.P. Sample size 60 B.Sc. Nursing students.Result: Result revealed that majority of students were females, 27 out of 60 were in age group of 20-21yeras, 25 (41.6%) were studying in B.Sc. N 3 rd year.Most of students resided in Rural area (36), 54 out of 60 belong to nuclear family and 35 mothers of students were educated as compared to 51 fathers.The mean score and SD of influencing variables of academic procrastination were as follows Personal variable was 2.6 0.48, Environmental 2.26 0.71, and Academic was 1.78 0.41.Majority of nursing students 39 (65%) were moderately affected by Personal variables, Environmental variables affected 23 (38%) students moderately and academic variables affected 17 (28%) students moderately.Only Personal factor had more effect on 5 students as compared to none in other two variables. Conclusion:The study concluded that Environmental and personal factor had more effect on Academic procrastination as compared to academic variables.