التسويق الأكاديمي و علاقته بالأفكار اللاعقلانية لدى طلبة جامعة طيبة

Abstract EN

The study aims at knowing the prevalence of the academic procrastination among students at Taibah University, its relationship with their irrational thoughts and then investigates the differences in the levels of academic procrastination and irrational thoughts according to gender and academic specialization.

To achieve this, the Arabic scale for procrastination was used, a scale designed by Abd al Khaleq and Al-Doghaim (2011), and irrational thoughts scale which was translated and modified by Al-Rayhani (1985-1987).

The study was conducted on a sample of (556) : male = (242), female = (314) in the academic year 1436.

The results indicated that the percentage of male procrastinators was (47.5) and female (66.6).

The percentage of procrastinators from faculty of arts and humanities (87.3) and only (12.9) from faculties of sciences.

The findings showed a statistical correlation between academic procrastination and irrational thoughts (.137) for the total sample and (.247) for students at the (0.00) level of significance.

However, there was no statistical significant correlation for female sample of faculties of humanities and sciences.

There were no statistical significance effect of gender on academic procrastination whereas there was statistical significance effect of the specialization variable and the interaction between them on academic procrastination.

There were also statistical significance of gender and specialization and the interaction between them on irrational thoughts.

The studies researcher recommends offering programs to train students about how to overcome procrastination throw adjusting the irrational thoughts, also to execute specific searches about the reasons of spreading procrastination in different ages and in other areas of the community.