THE PROCRASTINATION TENDENCY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC COURSE’S LEARNERS OF AGRA CITY

Abstract

The major interest of the existing research to examine the relationship between high, average and low
groups of procrastinators among learners of Academic and Non Academic courses from the colleges
of Agra. The purposive random sampling used to collect data from 200 males and females from the
age group of 19-28 years from different post-graduation and graduation courses of the Engineering,
Management, Education and Science streams from various colleges in Agra. Procrastination scale
prepared by Dr. Amit Abraham used for data collection. It is a five-point scale having total 30
statements. By using S.D., Mean, Anova and t-test the result derived which shows that significant
differences are found in between Academic and Non Academic course’s learners, male and female
students from the whole group (N=200). 85.5% scored Average, 10% scored high and only 4.5%
scored low in procrastination trait. Out of 200 college students 171 scored average, 20 high and only
9 scored low procrastination