title: Academic procrastination: associations with personal, school, and family variables.
abstract: Procrastination is a common behavior, mainly in school settings. Only a few studies have analyzed the associations of academic procrastination with students' personal and family variables. In the present work, we analyzed the impact of socio-personal variables (e.g., parents' education, number of siblings, school grade level, and underachievement) on students' academic procrastination profiles. Two independent samples of 580 and 809 seventh to ninth graders, students attending the last three years of Portuguese Compulsory Education, have been taken. The findings, similar in both studies, reveal that procrastination decreases when the parents' education is higher, but it increases along with the number of siblings, the grade level, and the underachievement. The results are discussed in view of the findings of previous research. The implications for educational practice are also analyzed.
authors.affiliation: Universidade do Minho, Departamento de Psicología, Braga, Portugal. prosario@iep.uminho.p
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rosário
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: José Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Núñez
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González-Pienda
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Solano
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valle
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004522:Educational Status; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005220:Fathers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009042:Motivation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014477:Underachievement