Academic Procrastination, Self-Efficacy Beliefs, and Academic Achievement among Middle School First Year Students with Learning Disabilities
Journal Title: International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
The purpose of this study was two-folds: to examine the relationship between academic procrastination, self-efficacy beliefs, and academic achievement .And to investigate the relative contribution of academic procrastination, self-efficacy beliefsto academic achievement among middle school first year students with learning disabilities .The correlational design was used . The sample of the study comprised of 100( all of them were females ,Mean age= 12.6 years , SD = .41) middle school first year students with learning disabilities attending three schools in Zagazig City during the academic year 2017/2018, second term .The study utilized questionnaires and instruments to measure the variables.The correlation coefficient results revealed significant negative relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and academic procrastination (r = -.232), academic procrastination and academic achievement(r= -.154) while the correlation coefficient was positive for relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic achievement(r = .278).The results of multiple linear regression analysis was indicated that self-efficacy beliefs and academic procrastination accounted for 20% of total academic procrastination variance (F(2, 340) = 32.75, p< .001). In addition to this academic procrastination (β=-.36, p< .001) and self-efficacy beliefs (β= .35, p<.001) made significant contributions to the model. Findings were discussed and implication of findings was included
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Amaal Ahmed Mostafa
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