Relationship between Academic Procrastination and Self-efficacy among NEET Aspirants

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Page: 413-417

Pushparaj B.¹ and Mahadevaswamy P.² (Department of Psychology, Srinivas University, Mangalore, Karnataka¹ and Department of Studies and Research in Psychology, Karnataka State Open University, Mysuru, Karnataka²)

This study evaluated the effect of academic procrastination on self-efficacy among NEET aspirants in and around Mangalore (Dakshina Kannada District) of Karnataka state. The sample consisted of an equal number of 100 boys and 100 girls aged between 16 to 20 years and was chosen from 4 different pre-university colleges. The aspirants completed the academic procrastination (Gupta & Bashir, 2018) scale and Student Self-efficacy (Dahiya & Kumari, 2018) scale. Pearson’s Product-Moment correlation was utilized to verify the very significant relationship between academic procrastination and self-efficacy. One-way ANOVA was employed to find the effect of various dimensions of self-efficacy on NEET aspirants with varied levels of academic procrastination. The result of correlation revealed a significant negative relationship between academic procrastination and self-efficacy; the r value of -0.648 was found highly significant at 0.001 level. As the academic procrastination increased, self-efficacy decreased linearly and significantly and vice-versa. The results of One-way ANOVA reveal that the low, moderate and high levels of academic procrastination of NEET aspirants differ significantly in various dimensions of self-efficacy: physical self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, emotional self-efficacy and academic self-efficacy, excluding spirituality self-efficacy.