Abstract

SOARES, Ana Karla Silva; KAMAZAKI, Daniely Fernandes  and  FREIRE, Sandra Elisa de Assis. Procrastinating Academically is Something of a Perfectionist? Value and Personality Correlations. Av. Psicol. Latinoam. [online]. 2021, vol.39, n.1, pp.1-16.  Epub Oct 01, 2021. ISSN 1794-4724.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/apl/a.8687.

The present study aimed at discerning the predictive power of personality traits, human values, and perfectionism towards academic procrastination, proposing an explanatory model. Participants were 348 undergraduates, most of them female (58.4 %), with a mean age of 22 years (SD = 5.9). They answered the Academic Procrastination Scale, the Almost Perfect Scale - Revised, the Basic Values Survey, the Big Five Inventory, and demographic questions. Based on regression analysis, an explanatory model was proposed where conscientiousness predicted the dimensions of perfectionism (adaptive and maladaptive) that in turn predicted academic procrastination. Results suggested a satisfactory fit of the model to the indices that contributes to the understanding of academic procrastination.

Keywords : Procrastination; perfectionism; values; personality tests; undergraduates.

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