A Study Of The Influence Of Future-oriented Coping On Academic Procrastination And Intervention Among Senior High School Students

Academic procrastination not only affects the academic performance of high school students,but also has a negative impact on physical and mental health,so it is urgent to improve academic procrastination among high school students,and there has been a lack of research on the relationship between future-oriented coping and academic procrastination.In this study,963 high school seniors in a county in Liaoning Province were administered questionnaires(Future Oriented Coping Scale,Aitken Procrastination Scale,and Adolescent Burnout Scale)using a combination of cross-sectional data and intervention studies to investigate the mechanisms of future-oriented coping and academic procrastination.The results of Study 1 showed that(1)analysis of variance based on demographic variables showed that there were no differences in high school students’ future orientation coping,academic procrastination,and academic burnout on the variables of gender(p>0.05),residence(p>0.05),and whether they were single parents(p>0.05);there were differences of varying degrees on the variable of whether they were only children(p<0.01,p< 0.05,p<0.05)(2)The results of correlation analysis showed that future orientation coping was significantly and negatively correlated with both academic burnout and academic procrastination(r=-0.34,p<0.001,r=-0.45,p<0.001);academic burnout was significantly and positively correlated with academic procrastination(r=0.55,p<0.001).The results of Study 2 showed that after the implementation of the future-oriented coping group counseling intervention for the experimental group,there was a significant increase in the level of future-oriented coping(p<0.001)among the experimental group members compared to the control group,as well as a significant decrease in academic procrastination and academic burnout(p<0.001,p<0.05)when compared to the experimental group pretest.Study findings:(1)High school students in general showed moderate to low levels of academic burnout and academic procrastination,and future-oriented coping in general was at moderate to high levels,with no significant correlations with demographic variables such as gender,place of residence,and whether they were single parents;and significant correlations with whether they were only children.(2)The future-oriented coping,academic burnout,and academic procrastination of high school students were significantly correlated.High school students’ academic burnout partially mediated the relationship between future-oriented coping and academic procrastination.(3)The group counseling program for future-oriented coping designed in this study can effectively improve the level of future-oriented coping of high school students and achieve the effect of improving academic burnout and academic procrastination.Two studies focused on the mechanisms by which future-oriented coping influences academic procrastination,and these findings facilitate high school students to better understand how future-oriented coping influences academic procrastination,thus providing a new perspective on interventions for academic procrastination...