Self-Regulation and Regulatory Teaching as Determinants of Academic Behavioral Confidence and Procrastination in Undergraduate Students
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Theory of self-regulated learning vs. externally-regulated learning Academic behavioral confidence Procrastination University Structural equation modelling
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2021-02-10Referencia bibliográfica
de la Fuente J, Sander P, Garzón-Umerenkova A, Vera-Martínez MM, Fadda S and Gaetha ML (2021) Self-Regulation and Regulatory Teaching as Determinants of Academic Behavioral Confidence and Procrastination in Undergraduate Students. Front. Psychol. 12:602904.00 [doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602904]
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University of Navarra, Pamplona PGC2018-094672-B-I00; Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain; University of Almeria, Spain UAL18-SEJ-DO31-A-FEDER; European Social Fund (ESF)Resumen
The combination of student Self-Regulation (SR) and the context of Regulatory Teaching
(RT), each in varying degree, has recently been demonstrated to have effects on
achievement emotions, factors and symptoms of stress, and coping strategies. The
aim of the present research study is to verify its possible further effects, on academic
behavioral confidence and procrastination. A total of 1193 university students completed
validated online questionnaires with regard to specific subjects in their degree program.
Using an ex post facto design, multivariate analyses and structural equation modeling
(SEM) were carried out in order to test the relationships predicted by the model. SR
and RT had a significant joint effect in determining the degree of academic behavioral
confidence and of procrastination. Academic behavioral confidence also significantly
predicted reasons for procrastinating, and these in turn predicted activities of
procrastination. Conclusions are discussed, insisting on the combined weight of the two
variables in determining academic behavioral confidence, reasons for procrastinating
and activities subject to procrastination, in university students. Implications for guidance
and educational support of university students and teachers are analyzed.