The Effect of Supervisor's Supervision Quality on Academic Engagement and Student's Procrastination to Do Ph.D. Dissertation

The purpose of this study was to assessment of the effect of supervisor's supervision quality on academic engagement and student's procrastination to do Ph.D dissertation. The research method was descriptive correlational method. The research sample consisted of 201 students of Shiraz University who were selected by Stratified random sampling. The research tools consist of supervisor's supervision quality measurement scale (Herman et al., 2014), academic engagement (Shafley and Bucker, 2006), and academic procrastination (McCullozy, 2011) that after calculating their validity and reliability, they were distributed among the samples and the data were analyzed using structural equation model. The findings showed that the supervisor's supervision quality has a positive and significant effect on the student's academic engagement. However, students' academic engagement has a negative and significant effect on the student's procrastination in doing Ph.D dissertation. Also, the supervisor's supervision quality has a negative and significant effect on the student's procrastination in doing Ph.D. dissertation.