Gender orientation and academic procrastination: Exploring Turkish high school students

Abstract

The present study investigated gender-role differences in academic procrastination by Turkish adolescents. Early adolescents (115 females, 99 males; M age = 15.4 years, SD = 0.57) completed self-report measures of academic procrastination and sex roles. Factor analysis yielded four excuses for procrastination reported by students, namely; perfectionism, aversiveness of task, rebellion against control and risk taking. Further analysis a revealed significant main effect for gender roles on academic procrastination excuses. Specifically, Turkish adolescents with undifferentiated gender roles explained their reasons for academic procrastination more than adolescents with masculine gender-role because of the task aversiveness. Also, Turkish adolescents with undifferentiated gender-role orientation claimed the excuse of risk-taking for their academic procrastination, more than adolescents with femininity and androgynous gender-role. © 2011 Individual Differences Association, Inc.