The role of psychological capital components (hope, optimism, resiliency and self-efficacy) and achievement goals orientation in predicting academic procrastination in students

This study aims to predict academic procrastination based on the psychological capital components (hope, optimism, resiliency and self-efficacy) and achievement goals orientation. To do so, 375 students were chosen in Islamic Azad University in Dezful branch (175 female and 200 male) through stratified random sampling. To gather the data, Procrastination Scale (Lay, 1986) and Achievement Goal Questionnaire (Eliot and McGregor, 2001) were used and for the four components of psychological capital there were used Adult Dispositional Hope Scale, Life Orientation Test-Revised, Resiliency Scale and Academic Self-Efficacy Scale. The data were analyzed using Pierson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression. The results showed that there is a negative significant relationship between academic procrastination and the four components of psychological capital and mastery-approach goal orientation, and a positive and significant relationship with performance-approach, performance-avoidance and mastery-avoidance goal orientation (P