Psychometric properties of active procrastination scale among students at Kharazmi University in Karaj

The aim of this study was to investigate of psychometric properties of the active Procrastination scale, including reliability, validity and confirmatory factor analysis in order to prepare the test for Educational and cognitive research. This descriptive-correlation study was a type of validation and the sample size of this study was 273 students (127 girls and 146 boys) selected through random cluster sampling among Students at Kharazmi University and they were tested by the Active Procrastination and Passive Procrastination scale. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis confirm that the structure of the scale has an acceptable fit with the data. Internal consistency in term of the ordinal Theta and cronbach’s alpha coefficients in the sample group has been computed and confirmed. The Results of factor analysis, conducted in the main culture, reliability and validity coefficients were similar to the previous studies. According to the psychometric property, this present scale can be applied in Active procrastination research.