Abstract
Academic procrastination truly disadvantages students’ learning achievement. Hence, interventions to reduce this procrastination rate becomes significant. To realize effort, the current study attempted to examine the effectiveness of group counseling with cognitive restructuring and self-management techniques to reduce students’ academic procrastination. This experimental study involved 24 students selected using purposive random sampling. For the instrument, questionnaire was used to collect the data of their academic procrastination, while two-way ANOVA was to perform the analysis. Based on the results, the group counseling with cognitive restructuring, self-management techniques, and their combination worked effectively to reduce academic procrastination. It was also found that the group counseling with the combination of both techniques performed better than the use of each technique separately. At last, this study was focused on combining cognitive restructuring and self-management techniques to reduce students’ academic procrastination
Highlights
Students’ success can be determined by their academic assignment completion. Peters (2004) considers that interest in completing assignment becomes one of determining factors affecting students’ success
The activities done in the group counseling with cognitive restructuring and self-management techniques are elaborated in the following table 1
Data description of this study indicated that the level of mean and standard deviation of the experimental group academic procrastination experienced reduction viewed from pretest and posttest data comparison
Summary
Students’ success can be determined by their academic assignment completion. Peters (2004) considers that interest in completing assignment becomes one of determining factors affecting students’ success. Students’ success can be determined by their academic assignment completion. Peters (2004) considers that interest in completing assignment becomes one of determining factors affecting students’ success. Clare, et al (2000) explain negligent behavior or failure at completing tasks is one of students’ undesired things. Steel (2007) deems procrastination as a desired intentional postponement the individuals know that it contributes to negative effects. Steel (2010) thinks that procrastination is an intentional postponement by individuals for their tasks/ works they this can be troublesome in the future
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