The explanatory role of Epistemological Beliefs and Academic Self-Determination in Predicting students' Academic Procrastination through the mediation of Academic Emotions

Abstract

In the current research, the relationship between epistemological beliefs and academic self-determination with academic procrastination was investigated through the mediation of academic emotions. The research method employed was descriptive-correlational. The participants of the study were 320 undergraduate students from various fields and faculties of Mazandaran University, Babolsar Campus, selected through stratified random sampling. To measure the variables under study, the following questionnaires were utilized: Academic Procrastination Scale (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984), Epistemological Beliefs Inventory (Bayless, 2009), Academic Motivation (Vallerand et al., 1989), and Academic Emotions Scale (Pekrun et al., 2005). The proposed model was evaluated using structural equation modeling with AMOS software version 26. The mediating relationships in the proposed model were tested using the bootstrap procedure. The results indicated that the proposed model had a good fit with the data, also the results showed that the dimensions of epistemological beliefs and academic self-determination had significant indirect effects on academic procrastination through academic emotions.

Keywords

• epistemological beliefs
• academic self-determination
• academic emotions
• academic procrastination