Prediction of Changes of Academic Procrastination by Academic Self Efficacy and Life Satisfaction

Procrastination is one of the features that generally considered one of the college experience and is one of the harmful factor to students. The aim of this study was to study thePrediction change of academic procrastination by academic self efficacy and life satisfaction. For these purpose 302 graduate students of Tabriz University were selected through Cochran formula and completed the academic procrastination, academic self efficacy and life satisfaction scales. The gathered data were analyzed using multiple regression. The results indicated that academic self-efficacy and life satisfaction were a negative predictor of academic procrastination. Academic self-efficacy and life satisfaction can predict. %20 of the common variance of academic procrastination. This means that students who have high academic self efficacy and life satisfaction have low academic procrastination. The results indicated that enhancement of self efficacy and improvement of life satisfaction can lead to reduce the procrastination