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Feeling of Academic Success, Learning Adaptability and Academic Procrastination of the College Students Major in P.E.

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One thousand and twenty-four college students (mean age 20.74 years, SD = 1.10) major in P.E. were investigated in this study to examine the prediction effect of the feeling of academic success, learning adaptability to academic procrastination. The results suggested that male P.E. college students’ academic procrastination level is significant higher than that of female, but lower than female on the wish to decrease academic procrastination ; there are no significant difference on grades, but gender difference on some factors; there are significant relationship between the college students’ feeling of academic success and academic procrastination; learning adaptability and academic procrastination, the positive learning adaptability has significant relationship with low academic procrastination, and the negative learning adaptability has significant relationship with high academic procrastination.

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Zhu, DP. (2014). Feeling of Academic Success, Learning Adaptability and Academic Procrastination of the College Students Major in P.E.. In: Zhong, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Cybernetics and Informatics. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 163. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3872-4_30

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