Abstract
Individuals who are trained at university level are expected to work in appropriate jobs for their education. In this direction, a research has been carried out to determine the mediating role of academic procrastination behaviours under the influence of tourism education students' career intentions in tourism. In the descriptive study, the data were compiled with a questionnaire based on the literature. The universe of the research consists of undergraduate and graduate students in Turkey. The target population of the research consists of the students who reregister in the fall semester of 2016-2017 academic year for the Tourism Management program of the Faculty of Tourism and Tourism and Hotel Management program for the Vocational School of Tourism of the two public universities. The questionnaire was applied face-to-face between November 23, December 5, 2016, using the convenience sampling technique. The data of 462 questionnaires were subjected to factor analysis and stepwise regression analysis as well as descriptive statistics. It was determined that 9.3% of the planning and diligence can explain career intention in tourism. In addition, it was found that diligence was a partial mediator. The study concludes with the suggestion that students who want to pursue a career in tourism sector should achieve this not only with their planning but also with their diligence.
Highlights
The university departments providing tourism education are on a continous increase
It has been tried to determine the effect of long-term orientations of tourism and associate degree students on their intention to pursue a career and to determine whether academic postponement has an intermediary role in career intentions in the long term
According to the results of the study, the hypothesis that long-term orientation of university students receiving tourism education affects the intention to make a career in tourism sector is supported
Summary
The university departments providing tourism education are on a continous increase. some of the university level tourism students have chosen to continue their careers in the tourism sector, others decide not to work in this sector for various reasons while they continue their education, during their internship or after graduation. The success of the students who are educated in tourism can be related to their academic activities In this context, the term “academic procrastination” may be associated with the students’ long-term orientations and career interests. Rothbulum et al (1986) considered the academic procrastination as always or almost always delaying the academic tasks in hand and always or almost always feeling anxious about it at an uncomfortable level. The behaviors such as not performing academic tasks timely and leaving them to the last minute are very important problems since how frequent they are among students. Individuals may have many reasons for academic procrastination behavior, such as inability to manage time, perfectionism or fear from failure
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