The mediating role of time perspective in explaining the causal relationship between perfectionism and academic procrastination in female student in the second region

The aim of this study is to explain the role of the mediation of time perspective in explaining the causal relationship between perfectionism and academic procrastination in female student in the second region. The research method was a correlational relationship. The statistical population this study formed of the female second middle school students in the second region of Tehran in the academic year of 1399-1400. Az the sampel 300 students were selected in an accessible and voluntary way. The questionnaires of Academic Procrastination(Solomon & Rathblum, 1984), Perfectionism(Frost, 1990) and The Time Perspective (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999)  were used. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling statistical method.The findings showed that positive perfectionism and the future negative dimension (p <0.01), negative perfectionism and the present fatalistic (p <0.01), predicted academic procrastination. The future dimensions and the present fatalistic mediate a negative relationship between positive perfectionism and academic procrastination and a positive relationship between negative perfectionism and academic procrastination among the time perspective dimensions(p <0.01). Generally, perfectionism and time perspective can explain 59% of the variance of academic procrastination.