Vol. 10, Issue 4, Part E (2024)

Abstract
The act of
procrastination impedes an individual’s capacity to effectively finish tasks
within the allotted time. A person who tends to procrastinate consistently
seeks to postpone the task at hand. Primarily the study intends to ascertain
the occurrence of procrastination and how it impacts certain demographic
factors (gender, locality, faculty, type of institution and type of family)
amongst prospective teachers of Aligarh district. The survey involved 150
aspiring teachers, comprising 26 males and 124 females, who were selected from
different teacher training institutes of Aligarh district. Academic
Procrastination Scale (APS- GSBL) by Dr. Savita Gupta & Liyaqat Bashir,
served as the instrument for data collection. Descriptive statistics, such as
measures of central tendency (mean), variability (standard deviation), and percentages,
were employed to analyze the data. Additionally, inferential statistics,
including t-tests and ANOVA, were utilized for further analysis. Analysis
revealed no statistically relevant differences in procrastination between male
and female prospective teachers. Though prospective teachers from government
and private institutions varied significantly in the level of academic
procrastination.