IDRP - Academic Publishing
IDRP - Academic Publishing
Individual Differences Research > Volume 9, Issue 1 (2011) > 33-40
Gender Orientation and Academic Procrastination: Exploring Turkish High School Students
Bilge Uzun Özer, Joseph R. Ferrari
Abstract
The present study investigated gender-role differences in academic procrastination by Turkish adolescents. Early adolescents (115 females, 99 males; Mage = 15.4 years, SD = 0.57) completed self-report measures of academic procrastination and sex roles. Factor analysis yielded four excuses for procrastination reported by students, namely; perfectionism, aversiveness of task, rebellion against control and risk taking. Further analysis a revealed significant main effect for gender roles on academic procrastination excuses. Specifically, Turkish adolescents with undifferentiated gender roles explained their reasons for academic procrastination more than adolescents with masculine gender-role because of the task aversiveness. Also, Turkish adolescents with undifferentiated gender-role orientation claimed the excuse of risk-taking for their academic procrastination, more than adolescents with femininity and androgynous gender-role.
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Keywords
Procrastination;
High school students;
Self-evaluation;
Goal orientation;
Perfectionism;
Turkey;
Gender differences