Fear of Negative Evaluation and Procrastination: Exploring the Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem in University Students
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fear of negative evaluation, self-esteem, procrastination, self-efficacy mediation, AMOSAbstract
Students are presumably found to procrastinate more due to the fear that others’ might judge them in a certain stereotypical and negative way for how they handle their life circumstances. Either this fear prevails and then effects their overall productivity, performance and growth while acquiring higher education, the researchers tend to pay more attention towards analysing the role of some psycho-social and interpersonal domains such as self-efficacy and self-esteem if they predict or mediate such fearful procrastinated response among students. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate mediating role of self-esteem and self-efficacy in connection between procrastination and the fear of negative evaluation among students. The study comprised of 200 university students out of them one hundred (n=100) were male and one hundred (n=100) were female students. To collect the data, a survey was administered comprising four different scales i.e., The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (consisting of 12 items), Procrastination Scale (with 20 items), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (with 10 items) and The General Self-EfficacyB Scale (10 items). According to the study's findings, there were significant correlations among all the study variables. It was found through regression analysis that procrastination significantly predicted the fear of negative evaluation. Additionally, the findings revealed that self-efficacy served as a mediating factor, while self-esteem did not.
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