Prokrastinacija i traćenje vremena kod studenata
Students’ Procrastination and Time-Wasting

Summary/Abstract: The research is aimed at determining time-wasting ways and relations between general procrastination, self-compassion and perceived stress in students. The following scales were used: General procrastination scale, Self-compassion scale, Perceived stress scale, Sociodemographic questionnaire (survey), Time-wasting list made by students and 11 items of the Likert scale for evaluation of students’ participation in various activities. This preliminary (pilot) research was conducted throughout May, 2019, including 277 participants -- students from the 1st to 5th year of study from three different departments of the Faculty of Philosophy. The sample consisted 249 female students (89.9%) and 28 male students (10.1%), of the average age of 21.76 (SD=2.59), including participants aged 19 to 39. The research resulted in 11 ways showing how students are wasting their time, like watching TV, browsing the internet, etc. The average number of factors or ways of students’ time-wasting is 4.78 (SD=2.07, N=277). According to results of the research, a moderate, statistically significant, positive correlation between the general procrastination and the overall number of students’ time-wasting methods has been determined. Most of the participants, 247 (89.2%) stated that they wasted time on the internet (via smartphone, tablet, computer), while least of them, 32 (11.6%) stated phone conversation as the time they wasted. In order to examine correlation between the variables in focus, Pearson’s coefficients of correlations have been calculated. Based on the given results, it was determined that the procrastination-prone students at the same time perceive higher levels of stress. Also, a statistically significant, low and negative correlation between the level of the general procrastination and the level of the self-compassion, as well as statistically significant and moderately negative correlation between the level of self-compassion and the level of the perceived stress in students have been determined. The results of this preliminary research offer valuable guidelines form designing a new measuring scale, a scale to analyze ways of time-wasting, and can also be a foundation to plan a more comprehensive research of procrastination among the students population.

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