Resiliency, Vitality and Academic Achievement of Students with Learning Disabilities: The Mediating Role of procrastination

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of procrastination in relationship between resilience, vitality and academic performance of students with learning disabilities.

The present study is a correlation and path analysis method. The statistical population includes all elementary school students in Tehran during the academic year 1995-96. A total of 150 individuals of both sexes (70 girls and 80 boys) were selected by random sampling. They answered the resilience scale, the academic vitality questionnaire, and the procrastination questionnaire.

The results showed that resilience has a positive and significant relation with the vitality and performance of students. Also, procrastination has a meaningful and negative relationship with vitality and performance. On the other hand, the results showed that procrastination has a significant mediating role between vitality and performance as well as vitality and performance.

Educational procrastination, educational resilience and academic vitality affect the educational, economic, social and mental health of students with learning disabilities, and academic procrastination plays a mediating role in the relationship between vitality, resiliency and performance.