CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Today, students in tutorial environments face plenty of activity habits that inhibit their tutorial accomplishment. A number of these habits embody suspending preparation and doing preparation in last due dates. These activity habits are named as Procrastination. Procrastination is outlined as a self-adjusting performance and activity orientation for suspending what’s necessary for achieving goals (Hoseini and Kheiri, 2009). In easier words, we have a tendency to mean by Procrastination suspending study for the sake of preparation in associate degree inappropriate time and one in every of the clear samples of this development are learning for preparation for test that is thought as test night study. Consistent with quality level and psychological feature, emotional and activity parts, procrastination has completely different aspects; like tutorial, higher cognitive process and temptation procrastination the foremost necessary of that is tutorial procrastination. Consistent with Still (2007), tutorial procrastination depends upon two categories of position and temperament factors.
Position factors together with delay in grant, preparation annoyance and private factors like self-control and low self-consciousness, disorder and lack of progress motivation, hesitancy, attribute anxiety and lack of energy. Golestani and Shorki (2013), believe that procrastination is associate degree action whose main purpose – initially look – is to form life a lot of appropriate however in most of the cases, its consequence is nothing however stress, mental mess and serial failures. Numerous probable reasons are noted for educational procrastination among students. Researchers note low scores and tutorial performance (Hosein and Soltan, 2010), issues of public health (Yasemi et al., 2012), low confidence and shallowness (Abolghasemi et al., 2012), low self-eicacy (Klassen et al) concern from failure and preparation and assignment hate (Fatima et al., 2011) and psychological feature lack of confidence as (Golestani and Shorki, 2013) as associated with procrastination. One in every of the opposite variables that is meant during this analysis and is ostensibly associated with negligence is psychological health. Psychological health is critical for students’ relationships at school and its importance manifests itself in family and social relationships and alternative aspects of life. Researches outline psychological health because the ability for creating balanced and coordinated relations with others, changes and modifications of social and private atmosphere and determination personal conflicts and tendencies in an exceedingly logical, truthful and acceptable manner and believe that psychological state in not only being free from psychological disorders, however it’s the power of reaction to numerous forms of life experiences in an exceedingly versatile and important manner (Omindvar, 2013).
Consistent with specialists, psychological state is expounded to non-public welfare, family relationships, social and role of person in society and cluster. Psychological state plays associate degree doubtless and crucial role in developing thinking and communication skills, emotional growth, flexibility and shallowness of person from birth to death. Moreover, those that are mentally healthy have a lot of balanced behaviour, shallowness, positive feeling to themselves et al. and a particular, truthful and sound behaviour with others. Conversely, individuals of low psychological state cannot have associate degree acceptable interaction with others and therefore the expertise a way of guilt, mistrust and obedience in social relations. Their specific concern was on anxiety and depression (Santa, 2007). Psychological state permits somebody to acknowledge emotional and mental abilities and skills and play role with success in home, school, geographic point and society. By considering this issue that psychological state is one in every of the foremost necessary resources of human life and contributes to the life quality of individuals and promotion of social goals, awareness from factors poignant and threatening health appears necessary. Consistent with results of some studies, numerous forms of procrastination frequent among students that doubles the importance of recognition and addressing the explanations of prevalence of it. For example, researches disclosed that seventieth of scholars and two hundred of individuals has procrastination orientations (Savari, 2012). Consistent with some researchers, procrastination is that the major problem of most of scholars in order that it negatively affects their tutorial accomplishment and life quality (McKane et al., 2012).
The necessary issue is that despite of intensive researches in recent years concerning procrastination, the explanations of this comprehensive downside remained unknown (Tmanayi et al., 2012) and polishing o a lot of studies relating to this downside appears necessary. Therefore, author intends to perform a study correlatively to analyze the link between tutorial negligence and psychological state and tutorial accomplishment among students of secondary schools in order that it will notice new aspects and dimensions of the explanations of procrastination for explaining personal and tutorial specifications of scholars.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Students who procrastinate responding to their academic responsibility could be inclined to poor study habit as they might find it diicult to plan their activities, manage their time, develop study times table or coordinate a productive balance between their academic and socio-personal life activities. When students consistently procrastinate and engage in poor study habit, they tend to lose focus, ill-motivated to excel academically and could express anxiety while studying or sitting for examinations. They could also develop negative self verbalization; helplessness and poor academic performance that could put them at academic risk and this reflect the character of some Nigerian secondary school students.
IMPACT OF PROCRASTINATION ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KOSOFE L.G.A, LAGOS STATE
