PROCRASTINATING BEHAVIORS IN LATIN AMERICAN STUDENTS

Abstract

Academic procrastination behavior is a phenomenon that is increasingly present in university students at Latin American higher education institutions and consists of stopping completing tasks or postponing study habits. The purpose of the research work is to know the procrastinating levels in two universities in Latin America, as well as the probable correlation with some descriptive variables, all with the purpose of establishing some recommendations that allow them to counteract this type of habits that generally affect their performance academic performance of students at school. The sample was made up of 107 students from each participating university, that is, 214 in total. The measurement instrument used consists of three dimensions: Academic, Family and Emotional, which are measured through 10 questions for each one and under a 3-option Likert scale.¹ The results show that Mexican and Colombian students present a level of procrastination of around 20%, abandoning study habits and working for later, causing delays in the delivery of work and encouraging non-compliance, highlighting female students with those who present greater procrastinating behaviors and a positive correlation between almost all the descriptive variables involved with each of the dimensions of the procrastination model.