Bibliographic citations
Quispe, A., (2018). Optimismo y procrastinación académica en estudiantes universitarios de una universidad privada de Lima Metropolitana [Tesis, Universidad Privada del Norte]. https://hdl.handle.net/11537/13639
Quispe, A., Optimismo y procrastinación académica en estudiantes universitarios de una universidad privada de Lima Metropolitana [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Privada del Norte; 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/11537/13639
@misc{renati/523453,
title = "Optimismo y procrastinación académica en estudiantes universitarios de una universidad privada de Lima Metropolitana",
author = "Quispe Castillo, Amber Darcy",
publisher = "Universidad Privada del Norte",
year = "2018"
}
The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between optimism and academic procrastination in students of a private university in Metropolitan Lima. The investigation was correlational, non-experimental and transversal design. The participants were 371 students of both sexes, between 16 and 31 years old (SD = 2.44), to whom was applied the Attributive Optimism Scale (EOA) revised by Cayo Ventura-León and Castilla-Cabello (2017) and the Scale of Academic Procrastination (EPA) validated in the Peruvian context by Dominguez, Villegas and Centeno (2014). The results showed that optimism is negatively and significantly related to academic procrastination and to each of its dimensions (academic self-regulation and postponement of activities). Likewise, it was found that students present an average level of optimism and academic procrastination. Some lines of future research are proposed, to expand the information in relation to these two variables in university students.
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