The Role of Emotional Self-Regulative, and Behavioral Procrastination in Anticipation of Students" School Engagement

The concept of school engagement is one of concepts used by various researchers in the area education and training. Researches has shown emotional self-regulation and behavioral procrastination are related to the components of school engagement. So, the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of emotional self-regulative, and behavioral procrastination in anticipation of students" school engagement.

The research was descriptive, correlational type. The population consisted of all highschool students in Javanrood in 2017, By cluster random sampling a sample size of 306 persons were selected. For data collection, emotional self-regulation, behavioral procrastination and school engagement questionnaires were used. The findings were done using spss20 using Pearson correlation and multivariate regression analysis in stepwise method.

The results showed that there is positive relationship between emotional self-regulation and school engagement and the negative relationship between behavioral procrastination and school engagement. The correlation coefficient of the variable emotional self-regulation with school engagement is 0.48, Also, the correlation coefficient of Behavioral procrastination with school engagement is -0.36. Other results showed that emotional self-regulation and behavioral procrastination can predict school engagement.

Thus, improving emotional self-regulation and reducing behavioral procrastination may be associated with increased student school engagement.