The Existential Foundations of Academic Procrastination in University Students

Current investigation is dedicated to development a holistic image of the phenomenon of academic procrastination and to the search for the correlation between the subjective rating the deep level of procrastination and the purport of fundamental existential motivations and what is more, their fulfillmentl. Due to the different studies of procrastination that investigate procrastination as whole phenomenon and academic procrastination in particular, there is a large body of fragmentary data on procrastination, but no holistic picture is observed. To obtain a holistic image of the phenomenon it is needed to look at procrastination through the prism of the existential-analytical approach. Assuming that the fundamental existential motivations and the subjective level of procrastination are connected, there was conducted a study in which respondents have had to score their level of procrastination and submit a motivational existential test. Based on the results collected, the relationship between academic procrastination and existential fulfillment was revealed. The lower are points in fundamental motivations and existential fulfillment, the more propensity to procrastination. In future researches it is necessary to deep the research and try to collect more empirical material