THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND PROCRASTINATION IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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Mental health, Procrastination, Undergraduate studentsAbstract
This research aims to: 1) study the mental health and procrastination of undergraduate students 2) compare the procrastination between male and female undergraduate students 3) study the relationship between GPAX and procrastination and 4) study the relationship between mental health and procrastination. The sample were 160 undergraduate students 1-4 year. The research instruments such as socio-demographic data, depression anxiety and stress scale (DASS-21) and procrastination questionnaire. Statistics used in this study consisted of 1) descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation and 2) inferential statistics were analyzed by hypotheses such as t-tests, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The research results that 1) undergraduate students had a moderate level of procrastination (=2.50, S.D.= 0.62) , had rare level of depression (50.6%) and stress (52.5%), anxiety at a mild level (26.3%). 2) Male and female undergraduate students no significant difference in procrastination 3) GPAX was negatively relationship with procrastination at a low level (r = -.270, p < .05) at a statistical significance level of .05 4) undergraduate students with depression showed a moderate positive relationship with procrastination (r = 0.568, p < .05) at a statistical significance level of .05, with anxiety showed a low positive relationship with procrastination (r = 0.394, p < .05) at a statistical significance level of .05 and the stress exhibited a moderate positive relationship with procrastination (r = 0.521, p < .05) at a statistical significance level of .05
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