ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION AS A PREDICTOR OF ACHIEVEMENT ORIENTATION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS IN ANAMBRA STATE.

Abstract

The study investigated academic procrastination as a predictor of achievement orientation among secondary school adolescents in Anambra State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study; Conceptual, theoretical and empirical studies were reviewed. The study adopted a correlational research design. The population of the study was 11,773 SSII students. Sample for the study consisted of 589 SSS2 students from public and private secondary schools in Onitsha Education zone. They were drawn using simple and stratified random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection includes Achievement Orientation Questionnaire (AOQ) and Academic Procrastination Scale (APS). The instruments were subjected to face validation. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach Alpha. The result gave co efficient value of 0.86 for academic procrastination and 0.71 for achievement orientation. Simple regression analysis was used to answer research questions 1-4, Regression ANOVA test of significance was used to test hypotheses 1-4. The findings from the study revealed that academic procrastination was a significant factor for predicting achievement orientation among secondary school adolescents in Onitsha Education Zone of Anambra state. Finding also revealed that students in the urban and rural academic procrastination significantly predicted urban and rural achievement orientation. Based on the findings it was recommended among others that trained counsellors should be posted to all secondary schools to help counsel secondary school adolescents with procrastination tendency.