Vztah prokrastinace a locus of control v akademickém prostředí

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Title in English The relationship between procrastination and locus of control in academic environment
Authors

PROCHÁZKA Jakub MACANOVÁ Aneta MOKRÁ Tereza NEKULOVÁ Petra VODIČKA Adam ZEZULKA Richard JEŽEK Stanislav VACULÍK Martin

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Pedagogika
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://pages.pedf.cuni.cz/pedagogika/?cat=10178
Field Psychology
Keywords procrastination; locus of control; academic environment
Description The study deals with the relationship between academic procrastination and locus of control. It builds on studies investigating this relationship, which bring mixed results. On-line questionnaires of locus of control and academic procrastination were used. Respondents were randomly selected college students of one faculty. Of the 145 asked students, 100 fully completed questionnaires. Correlation analysis did not revealed a statistically significant relationship between the studied variables. The assumption that internality / externality locus of control correlates with academic procrastination is not confirmed. The results are compared with the results of foreign studies. The study also mentions some specifics of academic procrastination and proposes directions of research in this area.

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