Hope to get a job: The role of academic procrastination and academic motivation

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

1 University of Qom

2 University of Isfahan

3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Neishabour Branch, Neishabour, Iran

Abstract

the aim of this study was to investigate the role academic procrastination and academic motivation on hope to get a job. The research was correlation study. For this samples of 231 female students in the university of Isfahan by cluster sampling selected. Hope-Centered Career Inventory (HCCI; Amundsen Norman et al, 2013) and Questionnaire of Academic procrastination (Solomon & Rathblom, 1984), and Academic Motivation Questionnaires (Valrnd et al, 1989) completed by samples. For descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and for statistical analysis Pearson correlation index and multivariate regression analysis (multiple regressions) were used. Results of Pearson correlation showed that between Component of academic procrastination, academic motivation and hope were a significant relation. Regression analysis was used to predict the hope of changing academic motivation and its components and variable components of procrastination has been approved. Results showed that hope to get a job could be predicted by academic motivation and academic negligence.

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