An Study On The Relationship Of Self-Esteem,Self Handicapping And Procrastination Among Research-oriented University Students

Students are the main body of education and the key to the quality of education.A large number of studies indicate that the Procrastination of students is closely related to their academic achievement and physical and mental health.But there is a serious delay in the student group.So,It is necessary to pay attention to the current situation of procrastination and the causes of procrastination,and put forward a feasible solution.Previous studies have shown that individuals with different levels of self-esteem have different motives to adopt different self handicapping strategies to adjust themselves,and thus have an impact on procrastination.This study takes the students of research universities as the research object,Combined with document method and Questionnaire survey,aiming at understanding the relationship among college students' self-esteem,self handicapping and different types of procrastination,including academic procrastination,avoidant procrastination and arousal procrastination.This study attempts to clarify the relationship between self-esteem and self handicapping,and procratination,and to verify whether self handicapping has an intermediary effect on self-esteem and procrastination.During the investigation,584 students were selected from Xiamen University.The study adopts the revised self-esteem scale,the self handicapping scale,the academic procrastination scale,the avoidant procrastination scale,and the arousal procrastination scale to test.The main conclusions are as follows:1.University Students' self-esteem,self handicapping,academic procrastination,avoidant procrastination and arousal procrastination are good,but there are still some phenomena worthy of attention.In the aspect of self handicapping,university students are more stable with self-reported self handicapping strategy.In the aspect of academic procrastination,the three tasks of the weekly reading task,finishing the term task and review for the test are relatively easy to be delayed,compared with academic management tasks,attend task and the usual campus activities of university students.In terms of avoidance procrastination,university students are more likely to be delayed in social procrastination than the individual procrastination.2.There are significant differences in self-esteem scores among university students of different grades and different genders,the level of self-esteem of the first year graduate students was significantly lower than that of the master grade two and grade three,there was no significant difference between different grades among undergraduates,The self-esteem level of boys was significantly higher than that of girls.University students' level of self-esteem,self handicapping,academic procrastination,avoidant procrastination,and arousal procrastination have differences in academic ability.The students whose scores are in the first 25%is better than other students in all the elements of the situation3.Self-esteem has an effect on academic procrastination,avoidant procrastination and arousal procrastination through self handicapping,especially through Claimed and steady self handicapping.Self handicapping is the mediator between self esteem and three types of procrastination.When the level of students'self-esteem is low,they are usually lack of confident,they are not certain about their self-worth,and are afraid of the setbacks and failures will affect their images,so they need to sdopt self handicapping strategies to maintain their own values and self-esteem.And thus they have more academic procrastination,avoidant procrastination and arousal procrastination.Therefore,the key to improve students'procrastination is to improve students' self worth.Based on the above conclusions,this study puts forward the following countermeasures and suggestions:first,improve the students' self-worth,and promote the psychological and mental health of students.Second,combine the external control and internal control to reduce the procrastination of students.Third,the intervention should be differentiated according to the students' gender and grade distribution.