Parental control of child as a predictor of academic procrastination
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education 2014 |
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| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | Education; parental control; parental styles; procrastination; self-regulation |
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| Description | This research aims examine the relationship between the parental control of school duties in the first five grades of elementary school and academic procrastination on college. A new method was designed to assess the level of parental control of school duties. To assess procrastination, modified versions of Lay‘s Procrastination Scale for Students (PSS) and Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students (PASS) were used. The questionnaires were filled in by 155 students of Czech universities. Moreover, 102 parents of these students self-assessed their level of parental control. Polynomial multiple regression showed a significant quadratic relationship between parental control and procrastination. As predicted based on previous research, the results showed a strong positive relationship between parental control and procrastination for higher levels of parental control, and a weak, but still significant, negative relationship between parental control and procrastination for lower levels of parental control. |