The Impact of Procrastination on College Students’ Self-Efficacy

The aim of this study is to understand how procrastination affects a college students’ levels of self-efficacy. The investigation of this study is to determine whether higher levels of procrastination correlate with lowers levels of self-efficacy and vice versa. This study involves 216 undergraduate participants who were administered a survey which included the Lay Procrastination scale and General Self-Efficacy scale. The researcher employed a One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to assess the validity of the hypothesis. This analysis revealed a significant influence of procrastination levels on self-efficacy, meeting the statistical significance threshold at [F (1, 59) = 14.036. p = 0.01]. Specifically, individuals exhibiting lower levels of procrastination demonstrated higher self-efficacy (M = 35.31, SD = 4.01) compared to those with higher levels of procrastination (M = 31.58. SD = 3.72). The findings were consistent with the hypothesis and confirms a significant relation between procrastination levels and self-efficacy.