The Relationship between Personality Traits, Academic Procrastination, and Impulsivity among University Students

Academic procrastination has become a widespread phenomenon that is increasingly discussed in the academic field.This worrying issue have cause negative impact such as absenteeism, stress and anxiety happen to the procrastinator.Therefore, the personal development and learning process of procrastinator will be affected which later cause disruption in overall performance.This study aims to examine the relationship between personality and academic procrastination as well as impulsivity among research university students in Malaysia.The researcher built a set of questionnaires in Google form to collect respondent data through purposive sampling.A total of 150 students from five research university in Malaysia.The Big Five Personality Inventory (BFI-10) was used in this study with 5 factors namely Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism.In measuring impulsivity was used the SUPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale which has five aspects which is Sensation Seeking, Lack of Premeditation, Lack of Perseverance, Negative Urgency and Positive Urgency.This research also determines the level of academic procrastination of students and identifying the procrastination style into 2 types: active and passive procrastination through the Tuckman Procrastination Scale and Active Procrastination Scale.Finally, this study provided universities with valuable insights to enhance their strategic planning, ensuring more effective approaches to motivate and support students in completing their academic tasks within the designated timeframe.