Mediating Effect Of Academic Self-efficacy Between Time Management Disposition And Academic Procrastination

Academic procrastination has become a very universal phenomenon among middle school students,It will not only reduce academic performance,but also anxiety and other negative emotional experience.Previous studies have shown that time management disposition is negatively correlated with academic Procrastination Self-efficacy can negatively predict academic procrastination.However the subjects were mainly college students,junior middle school students or senior middle school students.but the six grades of Middle School were rarely discussed at the same time.and the three factors of time management disposition were not analyzed.Therefore,this research takes the students of a boarding middle school with six grades in Gannan area as the research object to explore the relationship among time management disposition,academic selfefficacy and academic procrastination,and to further investigate the influencing mechanism of time management disposition on academic procrastination.Based on the literature,using the method of questionnaire,450 students in Gannan was investigated.The three questionnaires for survey were Academic procrastination scale.Ado1 escence Time Management Disposition Scale and Academic self-efficacy questionnaire for Middle school students.With the help of Spss 21.0,the questionnaires data of the investigation was analyzed.and the main conclusions are obtained as follows:(1)Academic Procrastination of middle school students is common.and the degree of procrastination is in the middle level;there are significant differences in grades: the higher the grade.the higher the degree of procrastination;there is no significant difference between procrastination and gender or parents’ education level;(2)There is a significant positive correlation between time management disposition and academic self-efficacy.and a significant negative correlation between academic procrastination and time management disposition or academic self-efficacy;(3)Academic self-efficacy plays a partly mediating role between Time mana gement Disposition and academic procrastination.