Exploring the Impact of Cultural Diaspora on Procrastination by Gender and Age

• Authors: Katarzyna Markiewicz , Sara Filipiak , Joseph R. Ferrari

Abstracts

EN

The study aimed at discovering whether gender, age, and different cultural background may be associated with procrastination. Therefore, procrastination tendencies by students of Polish nationality residing in Poland with Polish students living in Austria were compared. All participants completed the Pure Procrastination Scale that measured the degree of self-reported procrastination. Results revealed higher procrastination scores by emerging adults living in Poland than Austria. Males from the Polish diaspora reported more procrastination behaviors than females. In contrast, procrastination was higher among Polish female than male citizens. Delaying tasks were higher in older than younger respondents within the Polish sample; for students in the Polish diaspora, procrastination decreased with age.

Keywords

EN

procrastination; adolescence; students; Poland; Austrian diaspora; culture

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 57
• Pages: 27-38

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Markiewicz

• University of Economics and Innovation

author

Sara Filipiak

• Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin

author

Joseph R. Ferrari

• DePaul University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.19.57.3.02

Biblioteka Nauki

1967660