Self-management Strategy to Eliminate Academic Procrastination of Junior High School Students

Abstract

The common symptom experienced by junior high school students is academic procrastination. This study aims to examine the self-management strategy to eliminate of academic procrastination of junior high school students. Based on the research result the Manual of Self-management Strategy was developed in order to help counsellors and teachers can administrated easily. There are three combination of techniques: (1) a combination of self-monitoring with self-reward techniques, (2) a combination of self-monitoring with stimulus-control techniques, and (3) a combination of self-monitoring with self-reward and stimulus-control techniques. The present experimental study with a pretest-posttest-control group design found that the combination of self-monitoring with stimulus-control techniques was most effective to eliminate academic procrastination of junior high school students (effect size: 1,87) while the other combination of techniques were less effective.