Interaction Effect of Gender on Academic Procrastination and Achievement Orientation among In-School Adolescents
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Interaction Effect of Gender on Academic Procrastination and
Achievement Orientation among In-School Adolescents - Author(s)
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Chijioke Virgilus Amoke, Moses Onyemaechi Ede, Chizua Elsie Umeano, Chinedu Ifedi Okeke, Sebastian
Okechukwu Onah, Malachy Anselm Ezeah & John Chidubem Nwaogaidu See all items with this value - Date
- 2021 See all items with this value
- Description
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The study investigated the interaction effect gender on academic procrastination and achievement orientation among in-school adolescents. The study adopted a pretest posttest non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental design
with a population of 804 SS II students (518 female and 286 males). The sample size of 129 SS II students from
Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State was drawn through purposive sampling technique. Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students (PASS) and Achievement Orientation Questionnaire (AOQ) were used for data collection. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the measures. Internal consistency reliability coefficients of 0.69 and 0.87 for PASS and AOQ were estimated through Cronbach alpha. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while ANCOVA and t-test were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that gender does not significantly have effect on in-school adolescents’ academic procrastination and achievement orientation. The researchers recommended that among others that the government at all levels should employ competent educational psychologists/psychotherapists and provide enabling environment and facilities for regular cognitive behavioural change programme for in-school adolescents who may be facing problems with academic procrastination. More so, government agencies and professional bodies whose responsibility is to design and revise curriculum for secondary schools should incorporate and emphasize the use of rational emotive behavioural therapy in secondary schools - Publisher
- International Journal of Higher Education See all items with this value
- Keywords
- academic procrastination, achievement orientation, gender, in-school adolescents See all items with this value
- volume
- 10
- issue
- 6
- number of pages
- 202-212
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- Journal Articles
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