The triangle of anxiety, perfectionism, and academic procrastination: exploring the correlates in medical and dental students

Academic procrastination is a common phenomenon among medical science students. This issue can negatively affect the students' academic performance. The aim of this study was to investigate perfectionism and anxiety as potential predictors of academic procrastination in medical and dental stude...

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Published in:BMC medical education 2024-02, Vol.24 (1), p.181-181, Article 181
Main Authors: Rezaei-Gazki, Parvin, Ilaghi, Mehran, Masoumian, Nahid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Academic procrastination
Analysis
Anxiety
Anxiety - epidemiology
Anxiety Disorders
College Students
Consent
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dental students
Dentistry
Failure
Grade Point Average
Graduate Students
Health surveys
Humans
Informed Consent
Insomnia
Iran
Likert scale
Likert Scales
Medical colleges
Medical education
Medical students
Mental Disorders
Perfectionism
Predictor Variables
Procrastination
Questionnaires
Sample size
Sampling
Statistical Analysis
Statistical Significance
Students
Students, Dental
Surveys
Test Preparation
Validity
Variables
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Summary:Academic procrastination is a common phenomenon among medical science students. This issue can negatively affect the students' academic performance. The aim of this study was to investigate perfectionism and anxiety as potential predictors of academic procrastination in medical and dental students. This cross-sectional study was conducted among medical and dental students of a public medical sciences university in the south of Iran. Students were assessed using the procrastination assessment scale for students (PASS), Tehran multidimensional perfectionism scale (TMPS), and anxiety subscale of the general health questionnaire (GHQ). Predictors of academic procrastination were evaluated using multiple regression analysis with adjustments made for gender and academic semester. A total of 176 medical and 79 dental students participated in the study. None of the perfectionism components were predictors of academic procrastination. However, anxiety was a significant predictor of academic procrastination in the total sample of students (standardized β = 0.404, p 
ISSN:1472-6920
1472-6920
DOI:10.1186/s12909-024-05145-3