The Role of Positive and Negative Perfectionism and Fear of Failure in Performance in Predicting Academic Procrastination of Secondary High School Students

The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of perfectionism dimensions and fear of failure in performance in the prediction of procrastination among secondary high school students. The statistical population of this study was all secondary high school students in Meshginshahr in 2019-2020 academic year, from whom 200 students were selected as the sample by random cluster sampling method. Data were collected using the tri-shot (PANPS) Perfectionism Questionnaire, Conroy et al.’s Fear of Failure in Function Scale (PFAI), and Tuckman’s Procrastination Scale(TPS). The data of this study were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and simultaneous regression analysis using SPSS (version 22) software. The findings of the study showed that positive perfectionism has a negative and significant relationship with procrastination (p>0/01). However, the relationship between negative perfectionism and procrastination was positive and significant (p>0/01). In addition, there was a significant positive correlation between fear of failure and procrastination (p>0/01). Also, the results of the simultaneous regression analysis showed that the predictor variables can explain 0.23% of the variance of academic procrastination. According to the results of the present study, it can be said that the higher the scores of perfectionism and fear of failure in performance in students, the higher the probability of academic procrastination.