THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRESS AND ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION AMONG PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN KLANG VALLEY

The research examines the relationship between stress and academic procrastination among private university students in Klang Valley. A total of 280 university students were selected for this study through convenience sampling. An online questionnaire was distributed to students in four private universities in Klang Valley by using a Google form. The questionnaire was adapted to the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) to measure an individual's subjective experience of stress over the past month. Meanwhile, The Academic Procrastination Scale-Short Form (APS-S) was used to measure the tendency to delay or postpone academic tasks. The reliability analysis for the pilot test is Cronbach's alpha of 0.96, which indicates excellent internal consistency and reliability. For data analysis, Pearson's correlation coefficient was performed to analyse the relationship between stress and academic procrastination. These variables are predicted to have a high positive correlation. The findings of this study predict a significant correlation between perceived stress and academic procrastination, indicating that higher stress levels were associated with increased procrastination tendency.