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Procrastination of university students in relation to the Big Five model of personality
KAPROVÁ, Aneta
This bachelor thesis deals with the phenomenon of academic procrastination in relation to selected personal characteristics of university students. The work is divided into two main parts - the theoretical and the empirical part. The theoretical part brings in the issue of general procrastination, which involves irrational but intentional postponing of our duties. This part focuses primarily on bringing current knowledge, description and characteristics of its specific form the academic procrastination. The main emphasis is placed on primary factors influencing its origin, especially on the context of personality psychology. The theoretical part is concluded with a chapter on the profile of a university student. Next, the empirical part deals with the research of procrastination in the academic field. The research is aimed at identifying the relationship between procrastinating behaviour and personality features of Big Five model. The research method involves a questionnaire battery, which includes three questionnaires: NEO Five - Factor Inventory, PSS -Procrastination Scale for Student Population, PASS - Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students. The research team was created from 155 university students. The results of this research show that the most prominent characteristic of the procrastinating individuals is considerably low conscientiousness. The empirical part also comes with the results from the evaluation of the degree of academic procrastination and other factors which can be considered as likely causes of procrastinating tendencies.
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TIME MANAGEMENT – a tool not only for students who procrastinate
Ouředníková, Lucie ; Franková, Emilie (advisor) ; Pauknerová, Daniela (referee)
This master thesis introduces term time management and describes steps for its successful implementation to our practical life. The aim of this thesis is to describe students´of University of Economics knowledge of this term and found out if study on this university and mainly passing course Management of Personal Development can expand their knowledge of this term. Mind mapping is used to deal with this aim. These mind maps ilustrate what students ideas about this term are. From the mind maps´ analysis arise that students of this university know time management very well, however passing the Management of Personal Development can highly expand this knowledge.
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Time management and procrastination
Šarmandžijeva, Cagan ; Franková, Emilie (advisor) ; Pauknerová, Daniela (referee)
The theoretical part of this thesis is focused on time management, its history and importance of the goals and tools, which allow us to organize our time. It will also focus on the issue of procrastination, its origin and occurrence in the history, definition of analysis paralysis and people's attitude towards motivation and self-confrontation. It will also introduce us to several tools used in fight against procrastination. The methodological and practical parts will elaborate on a qualitative research in form of an analysis of 6 female university students and their use of time. The research will also consist of an interview about time management and procrastination, which will tell us something about respondent's time management, their overview of how they are using their time, whether they have any issues with procrastination and whether these issues are solvable. The output of the research will be a recommendation of some time management tools to respondents.
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Flow and procrastination
Novakovska, Kateryna ; Franková, Emilie (advisor) ; Kolářová, Jana (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the connection between procrastination, the mental state called flow and creativity. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part of this thesis is focusing on finding a connection between creativity and flow and creativity and procrastination. To explore this phenomenon, we decided to focus mainly on students of the University of Economics Prague. The research consists of a questionnaire and a Guilford test of creativity. Chosen research methods and obtained data will be analyzed in the practical part of the thesis. In the end of this work, we will try to give some recommendations and outline possible ways of the future research of this issue.
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Irrational Behaviour
Vlach, Tomáš ; Koubek, Ivo (advisor) ; Kvaček, Jan (referee)
This thesis questions the notion of rationally behaving individuals as an as- sumption of microeconomic and macroeconomic models. Its goal is to show that foundations on which the modern economics is built are not so much solid. Selected topics are discussed theoretically and subsequently confirmed empir- ically by existing research studies. Afterwards, they are extended by related findings and potential implications for human behaviour. The thesis contains examples of irrational behaviour in which it is possible to behave rationally as well as examples in which it is very difficult to do so. The results imply that irrationality is present in many different domains. Because the assumption of rationality is repeatedly violated, economic models are not able to properly describe and predict human behaviour. Keywords Irrationality; opportunity costs; loss aversion; self-control; procrastination; cognitive illusions Author's e-mail tvlach92@seznam.cz Supervisor's e-mail koubek@fsv.cuni.cz
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Self-coaching-attainment of goals by "small steps"
Englertová, Klára ; Bahbouh, Radvan (advisor) ; Rymeš, Milan (referee)
1 UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA KATEDRA PSYCHOLOGIE DIPLOMOVÁ PRÁCE Klára Englertová Sebekoučování - dosahování cílů metodou "malých kroků" Self-coaching - attainment of goals by "small steps" Praha, 2014 Vedoucí práce: doc. MUDr. Mgr. Radvan Bahbouh, PhD. 2 ABSTRACT: This diploma thesis deals with methods of achieving goals and methods of increasing efficiency within the postponed activities in the context of self-coaching and self-management and this specifically for university population, which is indicated by the high prevalence of this phenomenon. The strategy of "small steps" or "quick wins" is described as possible self- coaching and self-management intervention. The validity of Procrastination scale is verified within the overview study by comparison with different studying strategies divided into those with and without delay. At the same time the techniques increasing students' efficiency are mapped, based on their subjective responses. Within the experimental study is then verified "efficient sprint" method, as a strategy of intense concentration on a short-term actions to achieve the goal. There are observed differences in subjectively rated advance toward the target and perceived difficulty of its attainment, specifically in severely procrastinating students. The results show a...
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Academic dishonesty and its relationship to work ethics
Horák, Lukáš ; Preiss, Marek (advisor) ; Krámský, David (referee)
The thesis is concerned with possible relationship between the rate and kinds of academic dishonesty and work ethics. In the first segment of the theoretical section of the thesis, the extent of present research concerned with the reciprocal relationship of breaking of the rules in the context of school and work and the possibility of predicting aspects of work ethics on the basis of having knowledge about the rate of academic dishonesty of a given individual, is summarized. The second theoretical segment is a descripitiona and discussion of research of factors which affect both dishonesty in the school context and aspects of work ethics. On the basis of identification of these factors are in the empirical section analysed data, which were acquired through surveying of university level and high school students. Significant difference betwen the rates of dishonesty in high school and university level context, which is contradictory to some of the previous research literature.Relationship of the students to their grades and to some extent, gender, were shown to be significant influence on rate of academic dishonesty. The analysis of the direczt relationship between academic dishonesty and work ethics has yielded mixed results, suggesting, that the relationship si more complex than previously suspected
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Eligibility of primary school pupils to manage their time
Tošnerová, Aneta ; Voda, Jan (advisor) ; Stará, Jana (referee)
The topic of this thesis is procrastination. Procrastination is "the illogical, but deliberate delaying of planned action, which is accompanied by a commitment to alternative activities." (Sliviaková 2010, p. 3). Occasional procrastination however mostly harmless is only a small step from procrastination chronic. Chronic procrastination already points at undesirable situation, the malfunction of a healthy lifestyle and self-control. That view is the starting point for the research work of the problem, which investigates the symptoms of procrastination among primary and secondary school pupils. Procrastination is usually being considered in relation to adults' behaviour. The question asked is whether it is relevant to consider procrastination also in relation to children at primary school. In the theoretical part, we therefore first gathered and compiled the available data about the topic from various Czech and foreign sources, mainly to define with necessary precision the object of the study (procrastination) and learned the wider context of the issue (time management, self- management). The survey is based on interviews with six parents and thirty pupils from 1st to 5th grade. The method of research used with pupils was author a story that allowed them to identify themselves with a certain type of...
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Time management
Hanus, Filip ; Franková, Emilie (advisor) ; Motlová, Veronika (referee)
It is of great necessity to know how to manage time. The theoretical part of this thesis is concerned with the definition of time management, its origin and evolution. It covers the basic rules of efficient time management and the principles of efficient work organization. It describes the usage of goals and their setting, circadian rhythms and their influence on our productivity and the most common factors that steal our time. Based on the analysis of time frames and half-structured interviews, the empirical part follows the lives of six university students for two weeks. Our goal is to find out how the respondents use their time, what is their knowledge of time management and also to cover the difference between students living in a room alone and students sharing a room with one or multiple roommates.
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