Emotional Stability and Emotional Intelligence as predictors of Academic Procrastination among college students

Abstract

Academic procrastination is becoming one of the main reasons why students' lives are affected so badly whether it has affected their grades, performances, growth or success in their lives. Procrastination shown by students can be the cause of many factors out of which there may be factors which control our emotions such as emotional intelligence and emotional stability. The present research also studies the relationship between how emotional stability and emotional intelligence predicts academic procrastination among college students. Academic procrastination can be explained as intentionally or unintentionally when students delay their academic tasks or work such as assignments, test preparations etc. Emotional Intelligence is seen as a person's ability when they understand and manage emotions of his own and also emotions of others and use them to take appropriate actions. Emotional stability is explained as an individual's ability to monitor their emotions properly when faced with a situation that may be demanding or challenging. The current study was done by collecting a sample of 100 college students both from undergraduate and postgraduate (50 each) from age ranging between 18 to 25 years. Standardized measures of Academic procrastination, Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Stability were administered to the participants. Findings of the study revealed that there is a negative correlation found between the dimensions of emotional intelligence and academic procrastination. A significant negative correlation was found between academic procrastination and emotional stability and no significant difference was found between the education qualification of the students.