The Relationship Between Parental Independent Support, Proactive Personality And Academic Delay Of Primary School Students

This study used the "Parental Initiative Support Scale","Initiative Personality Scale" and "General Procrastination Scale" as measurement tool.A total of 350 pupils in grades four to six were selected as participants.This study explored the characteristics of pupils’ academic procrastination and investigated the relationship among parental initiative support,initiative personality and pupils’ academic procrastination.The main conclusions are as follows: 1、The majority of pupils in grades four to six have mild academic procrastination(94.9%),and a few have moderate(4.3%)and severe(0.9%)academic procrastination.2、Students who are class cadres have less academic procrastination than non-class cadres,and there are no significant differences on gender,“only child” and grades.3、There is a significantly positive correlation between parental initiative support and proactive personality.There is significantly negative correlation between parental initiative support and pupils’ academic procrastination.There is significantly negative correlation between proactive personality and pupils’ academic procrastination.4 、 Parental initiative support negatively predicts the academic procrastination behavior of pupils in grades four to six.Proactive personality negatively predicted the academic procrastination behavior of pupils in grades four to six.Parental initiative support positively predicted proactive personality.5、Proactive personality plays a complete intermediary role between parental initiative support and academic procrastination.Proactive personality serves as an intermediate variable to indirectly affect the academic procrastination of pupils in grades four to six.