Graduate Students’ Views On the Graduate Education and Their Academic Procrastination Behaviors

Abstract

Background: Graduate programs aim to make contributions to science, to bring in a scientific perspective and to raise qualified human beings. Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between graduate students’ views on graduate education and their academic procrastination inclinations and to address the associated factors. Methods: It is a descriptive and correlational research. The research was performed with the participation of 317 students having graduate education at a public university. Data were collected through Personal Information Form, Aitken Procrastination Inventory and Graduate Education Evaluation Scale. In the evaluation of data, descriptive statistical methods, parametric and non-parametric tests, multiple comparison (post-hoc) tests and correlation analysis were utilized. Results: It was found that there was very weak statistically significant positive relationship between students’ academic procrastination inclinations and their satisfaction with the faculty member and academic advisor. Conclusions: Results indicate that graduate students have academic procrastination inclinations.