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Abstract

Procrastination is a phenomenon that affects university students and consists of not finishing a task or finishing it late, which has a direct impact on their academic performance. This is relevant because, in a context of high competition, higher education institutions and their decision-makers need to be aware of the factors that influence university students’ procrastination in order to implement actions that favor student attraction and retention. Based on the above, this research aims to propose a theoretical model of procrastination in university students, based on the literature review and content validation assessment through a semi-structured questionnaire. The proposed model is made up of nine dimensions: Psychological, Physiological, Social, Academic, Leisure, Time Management, Resources, Labor, and Environmental. Dimensions were obtained based on adequate levels of content validity provided by the literature and the questionnaire. In the future, the research proposes to study the way in which these dimensions are present in procrastination and design a scale that allows for their measurement.

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Title
Procrastination in University Students: A Proposal of a Theoretical Model
Author
Araya-Castillo, Luis 1 ; Burgos, Mildred 2 ; González, Patricia 3 ; Rivera, Yuracid 4 ; Barrientos, Nicolás 2 ; Víctor Yáñez Jara 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ganga-Contreras, Francisco 6 ; Sáez, Walter 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Facultad de Ingeniería y Empresa, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago 8330225, Chile 
 Escuela de Administración y Negocios, Universidad Miguel de Cervantes, Santiago 8320170, Chile 
 Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Miguel de Cervantes, Santiago 8320170, Chile 
 Facultad de Administración y Negocios, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Providencia 7500912, Chile 
 Instituto de Salud Pública, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago 7591538, Chile 
 Facultad de Educación y Humanidades, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000007, Chile 
First page
128
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
2076328X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2779517776
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.