Abstract

VILLANUEVA, Jessica Karina Carbajal; FARFAN, María del Rosario Salazar  and  ALBORNOZ, Violeta Cadenillas. Incidence of procrastination on the academic self-efficacy of students in times of COVID-19. Horizontes Rev. Inv. Cs. Edu. [online]. 2022, vol.6, n.22, pp.194-202.  Epub Mar 03, 2022. ISSN 2616-7964.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistahorizontes.v6i22.327.

Procrastination is a negative behavior in which students postpone the completion of their academic activities, because they feel unmotivated or stressed, this condition may be due to multiple factors; as was the pandemic of COVID-19, due to the change of distance or virtual classes, adapting to this new educational system affected their academic performance. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the incidence of procrastination on academic self-efficacy in high school students in times of COVID-19. A quantitative approach was used as methodology, with a descriptive explanatory design, to a sample of 169 students of the VII cycle of the secondary level in a private institution. The results obtained from the statistical processing allowed us to conclude that there is a significant incidence between procrastination and academic self-efficacy, and that the lack of motivation and motivation were influenced by the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19.

Keywords : Self-efficacy; COVID-19; Students; Procrastination.

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