Relationship between Personality and Academic Procrastination amongst Undergraduate Students in Selected Private Universities in Kuala Lumpur
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Personality, Academic Procrastination, UndergraduatesAbstract
This research is to investigate the relationship between personality and academic procrastination amongst undergraduate students in selected private Universities in Kuala Lumpur. In this research, the sample consisted of 150 undergraduate students from selected private universities in Kuala Lumpur, 106 female students and 44 male students. The first result for this present research showed that there is a significant relationship between personality and academic procrastination as three of the five personality domains are found to have a significant relationship with academic procrastination at 0.05 and 0.01 level of significance. The second result showed that there is a moderate significant negative relationship between conscientiousness and academic procrastination, r = .402, p < .01. The third result showed that there is a weak significant positive relationship between neuroticism and academic procrastination, r = .244, p < .01. The fourth result showed that there is a weak significant negative relationship between agreeableness and academic procrastination, r = -.161, p < .05. The fifth result showed that there was a nonsignificant correlation of .030 (p = n.s.) between openness to experience and academic procrastination. The sixth result showed that there was a nonsignificant correlation of -.098 (p = n.s.) between extraversion and academic procrastination. The recommendations for future researchers are also suggested in this research which included the conduct of this research in different countries with respondents from different backgrounds.
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