Chapter 5

Conclusions and Recommendations

Conclusions

Procrastination is a behavior that is extremely prevalent for college students and is

projected that 95% of students engage in it. This study looked at a type of

procrastination that is referred to as active procrastination where students intentionally

delay homework. Specifically, this study hoped to support the hypothesis that students

who actively procrastinate have a positive relationship with both intrinsic motivation and

self-esteem.

Strength in this study was the subject matter. Since procrastination is a prevalent

behavior for many students, it is an area of interest for students who are

participating in data collection. Weakness in this study is that it is limited in

generalizability so that the findings cannot be applied to the general population. Also, the

small sample size did represent the majority of students at Binalbagan Catholic College

What the results show is that students who engage in active procrastination may

not be intrinsically motivated in their studies. They may rely more on extrinsic

motivation, or completing homework for external rewards than the desire to learn. The

results also show that self-esteem, whether a student has a high or low level of self-

esteem, is not related to the procrastination they engage in. A perspective on these

findings is that students procrastinate with no bearing on their feelings for their studies or

esteem.

RECOMMENDATIONS

After careful analysis of the findings and conclusions of this study, the

researchers have drawn the following recommendations:

1. The next researchers for procrastination’s causes and effects are encourage

to determine the other aspects of procrastination that details the other

effects of it to one person’s behaviour.

2. Students that are willing to make this research to be revised should clear

the explanation about if there are any positive effects on doing

procrastination although it is a negative self-regulatory.

3. Future researchers should also study if childhood has a relation to the act

of procrastination when they grow up.

4. Since this research is about on academic procrastination, the future

researcher must study the aspect of occupational procrastination and what

is the relevance between the two. They must also expect that there would

be significant differences between the two.

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