Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

Corona Makes Me a Procrastinator: Correlates Personality in Predicting Procrastination

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311784,
        author={Thoyyibatus  Sarirah},
        title={Corona Makes Me a Procrastinator: Correlates Personality in Predicting Procrastination},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, BIS-HSS 2020, 18 November 2020, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={BIS-HSS},
        year={2021},
        month={9},
        keywords={corona procrastination personality},
        doi={10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311784}
    }
    
  • Thoyyibatus Sarirah
    Year: 2021
    Corona Makes Me a Procrastinator: Correlates Personality in Predicting Procrastination
    BIS-HSS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.18-11-2020.2311784
Thoyyibatus Sarirah1,*
  • 1: Department of Psychology, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
*Contact email: thoyyibatus@ub.ac.id

Abstract

The emergence of the coronavirus or covid-19 caused shocks throughout the world, both from a social, economic, and educational perspective. One way to avoid the spread of covid-19 was by implementing school for home. Procrastination can occur in students who underwent school at home because the control of the learning environment and teacher control was lacking. For this reason, the role of personality supported in predicting whether students will procrastinate during school for home. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of personality in procrastination. 174 respondents (40 men and 134 women) who were currently undergoing school at home were used in this study. The instruments used were the Uni Procastination Scale and the Big Five Inventory. Data analysis used multiple regression. Respondents who admitted to procrastination after undergoing school at home were only M = 10.6. The results of the data analysis did not support the research hypothesis, which showed that there was no personality role for procrastination. the role of social support, especially parents, student motivation, and self-regulated learning to consider when students underwent school for home