Predictors of academic procrastination and university life satisfaction among Turkish sport schools students

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of burnout, academic self-efficacy and academic success in predicting procrastination and university life satisfaction among sports schools students. The study sample comprised of 224 participants aged from 18 to 30 years with a mean age of 21.71 (SD=1.94) who were attending various departments of sport school in a public university.  A quantitative research survey method was used in the study. Clustered sampling procedure was utilized in order to get a more representative sample. Pearson’s product moment’s correlation coefficient, hierarchical regression analysis, the independent t- test and one-way ANOVA were used for data analysis. Significance was set at a minimum of 0.05. Results indicate that academic burnout, academic self-efficacy and academic success are significant predictors of procrastination. According to these results, burnout seems to be the strongest predictor which explains 32.3% of the variance in procrastination. On the other hand, efficacy dimension of burnout was the only significant predictor of university life satisfaction among Turkish sports schools students.   Key words: Procrastination, university life satisfaction, sport school students, academic self-efficacy, student burnout.