scholarly journals Academic Procrastination among College Students of Jorhat- An Explorative Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 365-375
Author(s):  
Rashmi Rekha Gohain ◽  
Sampreety Gogoi ◽  
Jina moni Saikia
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Academic Procrastination ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Expected Time ◽  
Standard Tool ◽  
And Gender

Academic procrastination is a behavior that is very common among students. It involves knowing that an individual needs to finish the academic task before the assigned time but for one or another reason respondents fail to accomplish the task within the expected time frame. It is the practice of doing more pleasurable or less urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones. Individuals often promise themselves not to delay things until the last minute but it happens again. Such procrastination behaviors affect the student’s actual performances in the learning process and lead to feelings of guilt, inadequacy, depression, and self-doubt. The present study is exploratory research carried out to assess the area and gender difference in academic procrastination among College students in the year 2020. A sample of 199 undergraduate students was selected by using Solvin’s formula (N/1+Ne²), where ‘N’ is the total population and ‘e’ is the margin of error. A standard tool named “Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students (PASS)” was used to assess the academic procrastination of the students. The findings revealed that in areas of procrastination majority 61.3 percent of the respondents had an average level of academic procrastination, as most of the respondents (63.81%) sometimes procrastinate in school activities in general also 65.32 percent of respondents sometimes face a problem when they procrastinate in school activities in general. Findings also depict that 49.74 percent definitely want to decrease the tendency to procrastinate in keeping up with weekly reading assignments. It was also revealed from the findings that there was no gender difference in academic procrastination among College students. 

CONCERN FOR APPROPRIATENESS, RELIGIOSITY, AND GENDER AS PREDICTORS OF ALCOHOL AND MARIJUANA USE

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Bliss ◽  
Cynthia L. Crown
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
And Gender

The validity of the Concern for Appropriateness Scale (CAS) as a direct or indirect predictor of alcohol and marijuana use in college students was investigated in this study. Specifically, the study examined whether the CAS, by itself, predicted self-reported alcohol and marijuana and whether it interacted with gender and/or religiosity to predict alcohol and marijuana use. The Ss were 143 undergraduate students, and it was found that the CAS directly predicted marijuana use and also interacted with religiosity in the prediction of marijuana use. The results also indicated that the CAS did not directly predict alcohol use, but the CAS interacted with gender and religiosity in the prediction of alcohol use. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for validity of the CAS as an index of social anxiety.

scholarly journals Gender differences in perceived stress and coping among college students

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0255634
Author(s):  
B. Sue Graves ◽  
Michael E. Hall ◽  
Carolyn Dias-Karch ◽  
Michael H. Haischer ◽  
Christine Apter
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Brief Cope ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Coping

Background Many college students register each semester for courses, leading to productive careers and fulfilled lives. During this time, the students have to manage many stressors stemming from academic, personal, and, sometimes, work lives. Students, who lack appropriate stress management skills, may find it difficult to balance these responsibilities. Objectives This study examined stress, coping mechanisms, and gender differences in undergraduate students towards the end of the semester. Design and method University students (n = 448) enrolled in three different undergraduate exercise science courses were assessed. Two instruments, the Perceived Stress Scale and Brief Cope, were administered during the twelfth week of the semester, four weeks prior to final exams. T-tests were used to detect gender differences for the stress levels and coping strategies. Results Overall, females indicated higher levels of stress than their male counterparts. Gender differences were evident in both coping dimensions and individual coping strategies used. Females were found to utilize the emotion-focused coping dimension and endorsed the use of four coping strategies more often than males. These included self-distraction, emotional support, instrumental support, and venting. Conclusions This research adds to the existing literature by illuminating the level of perceived stress and different coping strategies used by undergraduate female and male students. In turn, students may need educational interventions to develop effective and healthy coping strategies to last a lifetime. Faculty and other university officials may want to highlight and understand these various factors to protect the students’ wellbeing in their classes.

Justly Relating to Self and Others in College Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Beste
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
College Culture ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
Hookup Culture ◽  
And Gender

What kind of relationships and sex do college students actually desire? Students’ reflections indicate that they want just and mutual connections. What hinders these? According to students, one reason they may tolerate unjust sexual and gender norms and perpetuate injustice in their sexual lives is the “toxic messages” found in the ubiquitous eroticization of sexual inequality throughout our culture. Such eroticization of power-over interactions deeply affects their sexual expectations, sexual desires, arousal patterns, and sexual behaviors. After offering their perspectives on Margaret Farley’s account of just sex, undergraduate students provide analyses of whether hookups and hookup culture overall can be just, their perspectives on just sex, and their view of obstacles to sexual justice on college campuses and within broader U.S. culture.

scholarly journals Exam anxiety in college students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha Pagaria
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Gender Difference ◽  
Test Anxiety ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Exam Anxiety

Test anxiety is a psychological condition in which individuals experience outrageous distress and anxiety in testing circumstances. It is a form of performance anxiety. Fear of exams influence the academic performance of students in the exam. It is an irrational distress that can also lead to avoidance of the feared situation. The objective was to study the level of test anxiety in college students and observe the gender difference in test anxiety. Using purposive sampling, the sample size consisted of 120 undergraduate students (Male = 60, Female = 60). The instrument used for the study was Westside Test Anxiety Scale. The mean score and standard deviation of test anxiety are 28.18and 7.65 respectively. The t-test was conducted to observe the gender difference in test anxiety. The results came out to be that there is a significance difference between male and female college students on test anxiety.

scholarly journals ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION AMONG INFORMATION SYSTEMS STUDENTS: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF FAMILY BACKGROUND, SELF-EMPLOYMENT, AND GENDER IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Moises Israel Belchior de Andrade Coelho ◽  
Elsianne Serudo Marinho Lira
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Technical Procedure ◽  
And Gender

This research aims to investigate family background, self-employment, and gender in undergraduate students of information systems. Regarding the approach to the problem, this research is characterized as quantitative and as for the objectives, there is exploratory research. The technical procedure adopted was the case study in information systems students (number of respondents equal to 100). The main results that most students intend to become entrepreneurs in the future: Students who have a family background tend to support entrepreneurship more; and high entrepreneurial behavior in females concerning males. The importance of this study is to indicate how such factors (family background, self-employment, and gender) affect undergraduate students, contributing to the theoretical and managerial aspects of studies in entrepreneurial intention in the context of the Amazonia region.

Identity Formation: Role of Academic Achievement and Gender Among College Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Navneet Kaur ◽  
Kulwinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Undergraduate College Students ◽  
Identity Achievement ◽  
And Gender

Erikson's work on identity development focused on the question, 'who am I'? As in society, identity formation is argued to be one of the key developmental tasks. This study aims to explore identity formation among undergraduate college students of Punjab across gender and achievement. The study was carried out on 200 undergraduate students (80 males and 120 females) from colleges under Punjab University, Chandigarh. The objective was to measure the Ego Identity Status which was done by using a tool developed by Bennion and Adams (1986). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to test the hypothesis formulated for the study. It was found that majority of undergraduate college students are in diffusion and achievement identity status. Female students outnumbered the male students in 'Identity Achievement', 'Foreclosure' and 'Moratorium' status. There were no significant gender differences in the academic achievement of undergraduate college students. There was an interaction effect of gender and identity formation on achievement. It was found that among males identity achievement and foreclosure identity status groups performed better than moratorium and diffusion groups of undergraduate college.

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