Big Five Personality Traits, Gender, Academic level and Academic Procrastination among Pakistani Undergraduate Students

Abstract

The present study aimed to determine a relationship between personality traits and procrastination among the undergraduates and to compare mean scores of both the genders and academic years on Academic Procrastination Scale and Big Five Inventory. Through random sampling a sample of 250 undergraduatestudents (M= 21, SD = 1.47) was selected from a private university in Lahore, Pakistan. For measuring personality traits Big Five Inventory (BFI) was used and Academic Procrastination Scale (APS) was used to measure procrastination. Pearson Product Moment correlation depicted that out of the Big Five personality traits only neuroticismshares a positive correlation with procrastination. Furthermore, through descriptive statistics mean scores of both the genders and academic years on personality and procrastination scale were found to be insignificant; senior year female studentsscoring slightly low on procrastination as compared to males and other academic year students. This study would help researchers to explore this area on a large population taken from multiple institutions belonging to different gender and backgrounds.