Does Fear of Negative Evaluation Itself Cause Academic Procrastination?: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Social Anxiety
Does Fear of Negative Evaluation Itself Cause Academic Procrastination?: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Social Anxiety

Summary/Abstract: This study focused on the inconsistent relationship between the fear of negative evaluation and academic procrastination in previous studies and assumed that there may be a moderating variable between the two variables. Therefore, this study aimed to verify the moderating effect of social anxiety on the relationship between the fear of negative evaluation and academic procrastination. For this purpose, a questionnaire was administered to 323 college students from 41 universities in Korea, and the data were analysed. The result showed that the fear of negative evaluation and social anxiety had significant influences on academic procrastination. The moderating effect of social anxiety on the relationship between the fear of negative evaluation and academic procrastination was significant. In particular, when social anxiety was low, the relationship between the fear of negative evaluation and academic procrastination was not significant.

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