Causes of Student Procrastination: Family Background and Educational Style

As time passes, the words "self-control" and "procrastination" begin to appear more frequently in people's sight, with a growing focus on the issues of procrastination and self-control. However, most research on self-control has focused on adults in the workplace instead of students. To be specific, problems that occur after people reach adulthood are often not caused during their adulthood but are derived from the bad habits developed and practiced when they were still in school. Therefore, before focusing on procrastination in workplaces, it is also vital to discover the academic procrastination and the problem of self-regulation in childhood. Thus, this essay aims to show how the family, as one of the great factors that contribute to children's growth and ability to control themselves, affects students' procrastination and ability to self-control, while synthesizing possible solutions that can be implemented to mitigate or address the problem after research and investigations.