Procrastination, emotional intelligence and Academic achievement among university Students

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to identify the relationship of procrastination, emotional intelligence and academic achievement among university students. Relationship of these variables with birth order and hostellites/day scholars was also assessed. Both males and females were included in the study. Comparison of undergraduate students and post graduate students among these variables were also done. Data was collected from different universities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Data was analyzed through SPSS 21 using pearson correlation, t-test and Anova. Results indicated that postgraduate students tend to do more procrastination than undergraduate student, females score higher than males on academic achievement and males procrastinate more than females. Moreover, mean difference reported that males were slightly more emotionally intelligent than females. In the present study the result also showed that hostellites do more procrastination than the day scholars. Although these hypotheses were not planned earlier but there were some new and interesting findings which were worth mentioning. On the variable of birth order the results showed that the only child does the most procrastination and are the most emotionally intelligent ones as well. In comparison of eldest, middle and youngest ones, the middle one procrastinates more and the youngest one does the least procrastination. On the comparison birth order with emotional intelligence, the results showed that only child is the most emotionally intelligent between the comparison of eldest, middle and youngest ones. In addition to that the middle ones are the most emotionally intelligent ones, and then come the eldest ones and youngest ones comes on the last. On the variable of academic achievement results indicated that only child are the highest achievers. In comparison of eldest, youngest and middle ones, mean difference indicated that eldest ones achieve slightly more than middle ones and youngest one achieve less than them. Limitations, recommendations and implication of the study have also been discussed.