THE ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF ACADEMICEXCUSE-MAKING: Examining Individual Differences inProcrastination

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• 作者：Ferrari ; Joseph R. ; Keane ; Sabrina M. ; Wolfe ; Raymond N. ; Beck ; Brett L.
• 刊名：Research in Higher Education
• 出版年：1998
• 出版时间：1998
• 年：1998
• 卷：39
• 期：2
• 页码：199-215
• 全文大小：164 KB

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Students from two colleges (n = 546) differingin admission selectivity completed measures of academicprocrastination and excuses. Procrastination was higheramong students at the selective college than students at the nonselective college. Academicprocrastination was motivated by task aversiveness forstudents at the selective college and by fear of taskfailure and fear of social disapproval for students at the nonselective college. At thenonselective college only, procrastinators compared tononprocrastinators reported more often using bothlegitimate and fraudulent excuses in college and duringthe current semester. Participants reported that excuseswere self-generated for the purpose of gaining moreassignment time and that most instructors did notrequire proof for excuses. The characteristics ofcourses and instructors likely to promote excuse-makingby both procrastinators and nonprocrastinators also wereexamined. These results reflect the need byadministrators and personnel to consider individual and situational differences when implementingstudent-centered intervention programs.