Original article | Open Access
International Journal of Educational Researchers 2019, Vol. 10(4) 1-19
pp. 1 - 19
Publish Date: December 31, 2019 | Single/Total View: 268/809 | Single/Total Download: 442/1.494
Abstract
Mindfulness is to give attention to the current mainstream and open mind and to accept whatever is taking place at this moment. Academic procrastination usually involves delaying tasks and studies of academic origin for irrational reasons. Increasing the quality of students in higher education is important in terms of improving the total education quality of our country. Especially knowledge-based and teacher-cantered approaches seen in engineering curriculums make it difficult for us to see the quality of students. Therefore, this study examines whether there is a relationship between mindfulness levels and academic procrastination behaviours that affect the effective learning and achievement of the student by taking the student to the center. This study designed as a survey model. The data of the research were carried out in eight different departments of the mentioned university with 400 participants (152 females, 248 males) studying at Istanbul Technical University. Demographic Information Form, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) and Academic Procrastination Scale (APS) data collection instruments were applied to the individuals who participated in the research. IBM SPSS Statistics 25 program was used to analyze the data. One-way ANOVA and T-test were used for normal distribution data, Man Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests, which are non-parametric equivalents of these tests, were used for data with non-normal distribution. The Pearson correlation test was used to determine the relationships between variables. As a result of the analyses, it was determined that the relationship between mindfulness and academic procrastination was positive and low level. The findings of the study were discussed in the light of the literature and suggestions were presented.
Keywords: Mindfulness, Academic Procrastination, Engineering
APA 7th edition
Ergin, A., Coskun, Y.D., & Mutlu, E. (2019). Are Academic Procrastination Behaviours of Engineering Students Related to their Mindfulness Levels?. International Journal of Educational Researchers, 10(4), 1-19.
Harvard
Ergin, A., Coskun, Y. and Mutlu, E. (2019). Are Academic Procrastination Behaviours of Engineering Students Related to their Mindfulness Levels?. International Journal of Educational Researchers, 10(4), pp. 1-19.
Chicago 16th edition
Ergin, Atilla, Yelkin Diker Coskun and Esra Mutlu (2019). "Are Academic Procrastination Behaviours of Engineering Students Related to their Mindfulness Levels?". International Journal of Educational Researchers 10 (4):1-19.