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International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education 

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Exploring the role of self
 
Hariz Enggar Wijaya1*, Arief Rahman Tori
1 Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author, e-mail: hariz.wijaya@uii.ac.id
 

Abstract 
Procrastination is widespread across the nation and setting.  Its occur commonly in an academic 
setting which has many demands and deadline.  One 
high association with procrastination is self
self-control on student procrastination.  There were 100 undergraduate students enrolled this study, 
from religious education faculty of a private university in Yogyakarta.  Pure Procrastination Scale, 
Procrastination Academic Scale for Student, and Brief Self
student procrastination and self
negative with both of general and academic procrastination. Also, self
procrastination both in an academic and general setting. As an additional, there were significantly 
different between the lowest and highest procrastination group based on student self
big size-effect reported.  For further analysis, the prevalence of six areas of academic procrastination 
also discuss. 

 
Keywords: Procrastination, Self

 
How to Cite: Wijaya, H. E., & Tori, A. R. (2018). Exploring the role of self
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Introduction  

There is no doubt that controlling our behavior is so crucialto achieving a positive outcome.  Both in 
personal, organizational, or community context, daily or professional context, people need to be well
managed to achieve one’s success.As a
early in the morning, could get good compensation from the company.  Also, in the academic example, a 
student who could not override the short
accomplishing an academic task. 

Having a good self-control is beneficial to our life.  
experiments, has underlined the important role of self
self-control would predict aggressive behavior and high self
Another study amplifies the substantial role of 
control had an influence on aggressive tendency 

At the macro level of several counties in Texas, 
that self-control was associated with violent crime, property crime, and unemployment, especially in rural 
areas.  The key feature of self-control such impulsive and unhealthy behavior, linked with unemployment.  
Converse, Beverage, Vaghef, and Moore, (2018)
not only work but also relationship issue and well
between self-control and health also reported by 
university students reported has benefited from self

In an academic setting, self-control gives pivotal role in determining success.  
shown that self-control positively associatewith academic self
secondary school.  It also affirms by 
gives valuable affect to homework habits, homework accomplishment, higher school grade, and also GPA and 
college persistence.  It gives corroboration that self

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role of self -control on student procrastination

Arief Rahman Tori1 
Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 

hariz.wijaya@uii.ac.id  

Procrastination is widespread across the nation and setting.  Its occur commonly in an academic 
setting which has many demands and deadline.  One of the variable construct which reported has a 
high association with procrastination is self-control.  It is why we would like to find out the role of 

control on student procrastination.  There were 100 undergraduate students enrolled this study, 
religious education faculty of a private university in Yogyakarta.  Pure Procrastination Scale, 

Procrastination Academic Scale for Student, and Brief Self-Control Scale were administered to obtain 
student procrastination and self-control. Results showed that self-control correlates moderately 
negative with both of general and academic procrastination. Also, self-control could predict 
procrastination both in an academic and general setting. As an additional, there were significantly 

west and highest procrastination group based on student self
effect reported.  For further analysis, the prevalence of six areas of academic procrastination 

Procrastination, Self-control, Undergraduate students. 

Wijaya, H. E., & Tori, A. R. (2018). Exploring the role of self-control on student 
procrastination. International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education, 
https://doi.org/10.24036/003za0002 

access article distributed under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, 
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ©2018 by Author. 

There is no doubt that controlling our behavior is so crucialto achieving a positive outcome.  Both in 
personal, organizational, or community context, daily or professional context, people need to be well

s success.As an example, we cannot imagine if an employee who failed to get up 
early in the morning, could get good compensation from the company.  Also, in the academic example, a 
student who could not override the short-term temptation such playing game, would have tr

control is beneficial to our life.  Denson, DeWall, & Finkel, (2012)review of self
ts, has underlined the important role of self-control to override the aggressive urges.  Lackingsuch 

control would predict aggressive behavior and high self-control tends to reduce aggressive response.  
Another study amplifies the substantial role of self-control, which identifies both implicit and explicit self
control had an influence on aggressive tendency (Keatley, Allom, & Mullan, 2017). 

l counties in Texas, Diamond, Jennings, and Piquero (2017)
control was associated with violent crime, property crime, and unemployment, especially in rural 

control such impulsive and unhealthy behavior, linked with unemployment.  
Converse, Beverage, Vaghef, and Moore, (2018) confirm the influence of self-control on work.  It could predict 
not only work but also relationship issue and well-being in adolescent and young adult.  The association 

control and health also reported by Yang, Zhao, Chen, Zu, and Zhao (2017)
university students reported has benefited from self-control training. 

control gives pivotal role in determining success.  Candeias et al., (2014)
control positively associatewith academic self-efficacy and school satisfaction in primary and 

secondary school.  It also affirms by Galla and Duckworth longitudinal study (2015), student self
to homework habits, homework accomplishment, higher school grade, and also GPA and 

college persistence.  It gives corroboration that self-control not merely about inhibit temptation.  

International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education  
Volume 02  Number 01  2018 

– 2620-5769 (Electronic) 
DOI: 10.24036/003za0002 

 
March 2018; Accepted 25th March 2018 

control on student procrastination  

Procrastination is widespread across the nation and setting.  Its occur commonly in an academic 
of the variable construct which reported has a 

control.  It is why we would like to find out the role of 
control on student procrastination.  There were 100 undergraduate students enrolled this study, 

religious education faculty of a private university in Yogyakarta.  Pure Procrastination Scale, 
Control Scale were administered to obtain 

control correlates moderately 
control could predict 

procrastination both in an academic and general setting. As an additional, there were significantly 
west and highest procrastination group based on student self-control, with 

effect reported.  For further analysis, the prevalence of six areas of academic procrastination 

control on student 
procrastination. International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education, 2(1), 12-18. 

access article distributed under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and 

There is no doubt that controlling our behavior is so crucialto achieving a positive outcome.  Both in 
personal, organizational, or community context, daily or professional context, people need to be well-

n example, we cannot imagine if an employee who failed to get up 
early in the morning, could get good compensation from the company.  Also, in the academic example, a 

term temptation such playing game, would have trouble in 

review of self-control 
control to override the aggressive urges.  Lackingsuch 

control tends to reduce aggressive response.  
control, which identifies both implicit and explicit self-

Diamond, Jennings, and Piquero (2017) study have shown 
control was associated with violent crime, property crime, and unemployment, especially in rural 

control such impulsive and unhealthy behavior, linked with unemployment.  
control on work.  It could predict 

being in adolescent and young adult.  The association 
Yang, Zhao, Chen, Zu, and Zhao (2017), wheredepressed 

Candeias et al., (2014) has 
efficacy and school satisfaction in primary and 

, student self-control 
to homework habits, homework accomplishment, higher school grade, and also GPA and 

control not merely about inhibit temptation.   



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Alongside with that issue, self-discipline reported has become reliable predictor than IQ in predicting 
student grade, school attendance, homework time spent, and high school selection(Duckworth & Seligman, 
2005).  Supporting this finding, Komarraju, Ramsey, and Rinella (2013), found that academic discipline better 
in predicting college GPA than standardized test scores (ACT) and high school GPA.  It partially mediated the 
correlation between high school GPA and college GPA.   

Another indicator of academic success is the way student deal with the academic demand and deadline.  
Whether they would accomplish or postpone the tasks, become matters.  A student who tend to 
procrastinate, tend to have a problem.  As Gustavson and Miyake (2017) investigated, a college student who 
reported as high procrastinate tend to have low on goal accomplishment.  According toSteel (2007), self-
control highly associated with procrastination.  It means that student who has a problem with their self-
control tends to procrastinate on an academic task.   Kim, Hong, Lee, and Hyun (2017)study also point out 
thatstudents who have high self-control reported have low on procrastination.  Delaying or postpone 
behavior,indicate poor on self-control.  In this present study, we would like to explore the role of self-control 
on student procrastination.,both in an academic context and general procrastination. 

 
Method 

Participants 

 There were 100 undergraduate students (47 males and 53 females) enrolled this study.  They were 
from the faculty of Islamic religion in private university Yogyakarta, which has an age from nineteen to 
twenty-two years old.   

Instruments 

 Data were obtained with three self-report. There were Brief Self-Control Scale, Pure Procrastinate 
Scale, and Procrastination Academic Scale for Student.  The Brief Self-Control Scale was self-report scale to 
assess unidimensional trait self-control, which developed by Tangney, Baumeister, and Boone (2004).  It has 
13 items which Cronbach’s α in this sample is0.78 and item-total correlation ranged from 0.58 – 0.63.  This 
scale used a Likert model with five alternative responses, ranging from strongly disagree, disagree, hesitation, 
agree, and strongly agree.   

Academic procrastination was assessed by using Procrastination Academic Scale for Student, developed 
by Solomon and Rothblum (1984).  These 12 itemsself-report coversof six academic domains: Writing a term 
paper, studying for exams, keeping up with the weekly reading task, academic administration task, 
attendance task such meeting with advisor and college activity in general.  Likert responses also used in this 
scale, ranging from never, seldom, about half the time, usually, andalways.  Cronbach’s α in this sample 
reported 0.89 and item-total correlation were 0.49 – 0.73.   

 General procrastination was measured by using Pure Procrastination Scale(Steel, 2010).  This self-report 
derived from three meta-analyses of General Procrastination Scale, Adult Inventory of Procrastination, and 
Decisional Procrastination Questionnaire (DPQ), which composed of 12 items. According to recent refinement 
scale, Svetina, Marie Scott, Danckert, Svartdal, and Steel, (2017)stated that the PPS has good psychometric 
properties.  It comprises of three subscales, namely decisional procrastination, implemental delay, and 
timeliness/lateness.  In this sample, Cronbach’sα was 0.92 and the item-total correlation was ranging from 
0.39 – 0.76.  Five Likert responses also applied: strongly disagree, somewhat disagree, neutral, somewhat 
agree, and strongly agree.   

Procedure  

 All of the three questionnaires were given to the undergraduate student at the end of three classes.  
Permission from the Dean of religion faculty was taken before the questionnaires distributed.  After 
researcher introduced, the material was given to the student by asking their cooperation.  They were told that 
they have to fill up the questionnaires and there were no wrong or right answers.   

Data analysis  

 Correlation analysis was employed to determine the relationship between self-control and both 
procrastination. Regression analysis wasapplied in order to find procrastination predictor.  As an addition, 
independent t-test also applied to compare between the low and high group of procrastination based on self-
control. 

 
 
 



 
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Results and Discussion 

Result  

 The descriptive analysis has shown (Table 1)that there were 36% students who identified themselves 
procrastinate on academic demands.  Along with that, general procrastination of student also indicates at the 
same level, 39%.  More than a third of the sample reported having the problem with delayed behavior.  Of 
them, 19% students having a high risk to meet the deadline. 

Table 1. Descriptive Statistics of general and academic procrastination 

 PASS PPS 
N 100 100 
Mean  33.89 34.90 
S.D  8.058 9.143 
Very Low 18% 15% 
Low   22% 25% 
Moderate  24% 11% 
High  17% 20% 
Very high 19% 19% 

 

From correlation analysis table 2 shown that self-control has negative and significant correlation on 
procrastination, both academic domain and general(r= -.32 p<.01 and r = -.45, p<.001).  The self-control 
explains10% on theacademic procrastinationvariance andtwice higher in explaining 20%general 
procrastinationvariance (see table 3).   

Table 2. Correlation between PASS, PPS, and Self-control 

      PASS   PPS  Self -control 
PASS  Pearson's r   —          

p-value   —          
PPS   Pearson's r   0.548***  —      

p-value   < .001  —      
Self -control  Pearson's r   -0.321**  0.450***  —   

p-value   0.001  < .001  —   
* p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001  

 

 

Whether self-control could predict procrastination, regression analysis was applied. Self-control 
variable significantly predicted both academic and general procrastination (β = -.32, F= 11,23; df=1; p< 0.01 
and β = -.63, F= 24,82; df=1; p < 0.001).  Self-control explain 10,3% of the variance in academic 
procrastination.  In the general context, self-control do higher explain 20,2% of the procrastination variance 
(see Table 3).  

Table 3. Summary of Regression Analysis for Predicting procrastination (N = 100) 

 Model 1 (PASS)  Model 1 (PPS)  
 B SE B β B SE B β 

Self -control -.395 .118 -.321** -.628 .126 .450*** 
R² 
F 

.103 
11.23 

.202 
24.82 

**p < .01,***p < .001. 



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Some study indicates that gender has an influence on procrastination(Steel & Ferrari, 2012; Rebetez, 
Rochat, Barsics, & Van Der Linden, 2016)and self-control(Candeias et al., 2017; Duckworth & Seligman, 2006; 
Jo & Bouffard, 2014).  Data analysis revealed that of three variables, only self-control having a difference 
between male and female, which female (M=44.49, SD=6.02) superior to male (M=41.89, SD=6.89).  There 
were no significant differences between male and female procrastination based on gender, both in academic 
and general context (see Table 4).   

Table 4. Academic procrastination, general procrastination, and self-control differences based on gender 

 Male (N=47) Female (N=53) df t 
 M SD M SD   
PASS 33.96 7.99 33.83 8.19 98 .078 
PPS 35.68 9.54 34.21 8.81 98 .803 
Self -control 41.89 6.89 44.49 6.02 98 -2.01* 

*p < .05 

Independent sample t-test analysis was employed to compare low and high self-control group.  
Table 5 showed that there was significant procrastination difference between the two groups.  The student 
having low self-control (M=37.05, SD=8.11), procrastinate in academic setting higher than high self-control 
group (M=28.88, SD=9.05).  At the same time, low self-control student (M=40.86, SD=9.01), having general 
procrastination higher than high self-control group (M=29.46, SD=9.11).   

Also, all of six academic procrastination domains were difference significantly between the two 
groups, except attendance task learning.Low self-control student reported having high procrastination on 
writing a paper, studying for exams, weekly reading assignment, academic administration task, and college 
activity in general and vice versa.  As an addition, three areas of academic task which percept as most 
problematic, from highest to lowest were writing a paper, weekly reading assignment, studying for exams,  

Table 5. Academic procrastination, general procrastination, and six domain of academic procrastination 
differences between low and high self-control group 

 Low self-control 
(N=22) 

High self-control 
(N=24) 

df t Cohen’s 
d 

Highly 
perceived 

as a 
problem 

M SD M SD  

PASS 37.05 8.11 28.88 9.05 44 398** 0.51 - 
PPS 40.86 9.01 29.46 9.11 44 4.26*** 1.26 - 
Writing a paper  3.455 0.858 2.708 0.859 44 382.5** 0.45 40% 
 
Studying for 
exam  

 
3.182 

0.907 2.458  
1.215 

 
44 

 
369.5* 

 
0.40 

 
28% 

 
Weekly reading 
task 

 
3.455 

 
1.011 

 
2.958 

0.999 44  
351.0* 

 
0.33 

 
32% 

Academic 
administration 
task 

 
3.045 

0.899 2.125 1.035 44  
402.0** 

 
0.52 

 
20% 

Attendance task  3.136 1.037 2.500 1.319 44 343.5 0.30 22% 
 
College activity 
in general 

2.773 0.922  
1.708 

 
0.859 

 
44 

 
421.0*** 

 
0,60 

 
11% 

*p < .05, **p < .01,***p < .001. 

 



 
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Discussion  

Exploring the role of self-control on student procrastination is the aim of this study.  The results 
haveindicated that self-control gives an important role to both academic and common procrastination. It has 
a negative correlation with procrastination and reasonably as a predictor of procrastination, in academic and 
general areas.  This finding underlines the previous study which has linked between the self-control and 
procrastination(Rebetez, Rochat, Barsics, & Van der Linden, 2016; Steel, 2007; Steel & Klingsieck, 2016; Ursia, 
Siaputra, & Sutanto, 2013).   

According to Park and Sperling(2012), a student who procrastinate displayed a failure of self-regulation 
across of behavior, cognitive, and motivation.  The reason why student postponed their task is not concerning 
the absence of planning and intention or isn't aware of the negative consequence, but more likely poor of 
energy and willpower.  They already have the goal, but the problem is to get a start or accomplish what they 
have done due the limit time. According toGollwitzer, Gawrilow, and Oettingen (2010), there are four 
obstacles lying between one’s goal and implementation.  Firstly, to get a start.  Procrastinate student tends to 
hold off what they have planned.  Usually, there was pleasure thing such playing or hanging out with a friend 
which alter initial planning.  A student having low self-control would fail to resist that temptation.  Secondly, 
to stay on track.  After the student makes initial action to implement what has stated before, the problem still 
remains, how to constantly act until the finish.  Many academic tasks, such writing a paper, couldn’t 
accomplish just in a few minutes.  It needs to keep in touch until done.  Low self-control student tends to fail 
to stay on the track.  Any distraction would inhibit the goal.  Thirdly, calling a halt.  A complex task or 
invaluable assignment is challenging for some individual.  But for a student having poor self-control, it would 
be easy to make an excuse to call a halt.  If this so, then any assignment would be abandoned.  The last is not 
overextending oneself.  Some goals which take a high resource would make student depleted.  Such long-
term project which required high control, yield cognitive load which in turn make ego-depletion.   

The association between self-control and general procrastination is higher than in academic context, 
though it still in the moderate level.  When it put as a predictor, self-control does better in predicting general 
academic twice than in an academic setting.  This difference seems likely to reflect the domain specification 
of procrastination just asKlingsiecksuggest (2013), where trait self-control better in predictingtrait 
procrastination in general.   

The difference between low and high self-control group on general and academic procrastination give an 
impression that association between two variables are salient, especially with large effect size reported on 
general procrastination.  From six domains of academic procrastination, three of them having moderate effect 
size: college activity in general, academic administration assignment, and writing a paper and the rest were 
small effect size.   

Based on the student report, they confess having a problem with the three most academic demands.  At 
the top rank was writing a paper, followed by weekly reading task and studying for exams.  It is not 
surprisingthat writing a paper is the most perceivedtask to as a problem. As Kellogg(1994) argues, writing is a 
complex process which comprises of four cognitive tasks.  There are gathering ideas, plan it, translate to text, 
and reviewing.  It is not only collecting knowledge in our head, but also a concern of intellectuality, 
motivation, cognitive style, and anxiety. 

Gender issue on the self-control and procrastination were found only in self-control variable and no 
difference was reported in both academic and general procrastination.  Consistent with the previous study 
(Candeias et al., 2017; Angela Lee Duckworth & Seligman, 2006; Jo & Bouffard, 2014), male and female were 
differing in self-control, which female reported better than male.  But this finding differs with Wang, Fan, Tao, 
and Gao (2017), which yield on male superior in Asian sample. This inconsistency perhaps linked with the 
cultural background lying on the sample. 

 

Conclusion 

Finding on this study emphasize the role of self-control on procrastination. It has a moderate association 
with both academic and general procrastination.  Self-control is better in predicting general procrastination 
than in academic context. The differences between the high and low self-control group in almost all of the 
academic procrastination domainamplified the key contribution of self-control in an academic setting, 
especially a college student.  As a consequence, promoting one’s capability to take more control in his own 
life would benefit, both in present and future.  An academic institution should pay attention to this non-
cognitive factor to cultivate positive outcome. 



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