Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Department of Education
Region III
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE OF PAMPANGA
SAN CARLOS SAN LUIS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
A. Brief Background
In today’s era of technology and the Internet, most of the ‘zoomers’ in Junior
High School procrastinate all the time because of various reasons. At the same point,
academic performance and stress and mental health suffers significantly from
delay in completing tasks, projects, or assignments. Most Junior High School students
shared by members of a social group," and the norm in education is to work and study at
school. Despite the fact that procrastinating is against the educational norm, there are
more students who postpone than students who complete schoolworks on time. Because
the majority of the social group participates, the norm has shifted; procrastination is
behavior issues. It can create a great impact to Junior High School Students’ academic
performance and to their stress and mental health. For many, academic procrastination
academic work quality, lack of information, time pressure, dropout, and a longer term of
study. Researchers discovered that students who procrastinate reduce stress and have
lower stress levels at the start of the term, but the stresses increase rapidly with time.
They also found that procrastinators have fewer reports of illness and stress at the start
of the year, but much more reported stress as the term progresses. Procrastination is
linked to worse academic accomplishment among Junior High School students, more so
The main objectives of this study are: determining the factors affecting
procrastination to the academic performance and mental health of Junior High School
proposed methods. The following hypotheses were tested: laziness or intended delay of
actions and stress caused by environmental factors are the leading causes of
have low academic performance. The outline of this Introduction will be to first
Junior High School students, and followed by the significance of the study among
Junior High School students, teachers, parents, and future researchers, and the Literature
Review that includes the contrast between the studies of past researchers about the
nature of procrastination.
The aim of this study is to analyze the links between Junior High School
students, procrastination, academic performance, and health. The results of the study
about improving lifestyle and study habits that are link in preventing the act of
procrastination. The study will evaluate data about the population of procastinators,
factors that engage non-procastinators, and the causes and effects of procrastination.
Data gathered will also help Junior High School students raise awareness and improve
Parents. This study will provide data about the factors affecting procrastination on
students. ‘Stress caused by environmental factors’ is one of the factors given that could
be highly linked in the negative experiences of students at home or school. Parents will
and health.
Educators. This study will benefit educators for they will know information on how
environmental factors’ is one of the factors given and could most likely happen at
Future Researchers. This study will foster new ideas about the nature of
based on the ways taken by the population of non-procastinators.. will have a head start
with the aid of this study. If ever they shall be studying regarding, then the data
indicated in the study shall be of great help in their relatedstudies. It will also serve as a
that people who procrastinate experience more stress than those who do not
procrastinate, and their performance is lower” (Seaward, 2011). It has been noted that
procrastination is associated with decision making and unease, depression and anxiety
deliberate delay of some crucial work that we want to do, despite the fact that we may
suffer as a result. A lack of understanding of time may worsen the problem, but an
inability to control emotions appears to be at its core. This suggests that procrastination
action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay” (Steel 2007). These reasons are
widespread considering that it contains accuracy among Junior High School students
that put off school works for the day after that day or do it last minute. This suggests
that when an unpleasant work collides a student who is impulsive and lacks self-
procrastination, research like the ones presented are in the minority in the
fact for this preference is that dilatory behavior is essentially subjective, making it
II. Body
Carlos San Luis National High School. Participants included 15 females and 15 males
with ages of 15 and 16. All participants in this study are volunteers. Google Forms were
used and distributed online via Facebook Messenger and Gmail. The survey contains
procrastinationon on students are included in the data from four close-ended questions
in the survey. After completing these steps, the participant was thanked and given a
short explanation of the study. All information was given voluntarily, and all
participants gave informed consent to contribute after receiving brief information of the
study.
Figure 1. Socio-demographic characteristics
survey results show that half or 50% of the respondents are male and the remaining 50%
are female. Also, half or 50% of the respondents are 15 years of age and the other half
26.70%
73.30%
procastination. The Figure shows that 73.30% of the respondents are procastinators and
Fear of failing
3.33%
Full of motivation
10.00%
Less distractions
13.33%
Figure 3 presents the data about the causes of why 26.7% of the respondents do
not procrastinate. The survey results show that 26.67% of the respondents consider
‘good time management’ as the greatest factor that affects of their inability to
procrastinate, followed by having ‘full of motivation’ and ‘high energy levels’ with the
same 10.00% respectively. On the other hand, ‘fear of failing’ and ‘good organization
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Figure 4 shows the data about the factors affecting procrastination on students.
We can infer from the table that ‘laziness/intended action’ is the leading cause of
students’ procrastination, followed by ‘stress’ and ‘low energy levels’ with 18% and
15% respectively. Alternatively, ‘perfectionism’ and ‘poor organization skills’ are less
33%
47%
10%
10%
survey results show that 46.6% of the respondents consider ‘stress’ as the leading effect
self-confidence’ and ‘high academic performance’ are less likely the impact of students’
III. Conclusion
academic performance of students has allowed for drawing the main conclusions:
in Junior High School naturally do not have the discipline to complete tasks in a timely
and organized manner and they also lack good time management which is the leading
strain or tension is the most likely effect to them where mental health is compromised. At
the same time, low academic performance is the second leading effect of academic
Chehrzad, M., Ghanbari, A., Rahmatpour, P., Barari, F., Pourrajabi, A., & Alipour, Z.
(2017). Academic
Journal of
Baccalaureate
10.2202/1548-923X.2114.
Seaward, B. L. (2011). Managing Stress: principles and Strategies for Health and
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