Academic stress and procrastination in students of 1 and 2 cycle of the Professional Career of Law of the Private University of Tacna.

Abstract

The objectives of the study are to determine the relationship between the procrastination variable and academic stress in 1st and 2nd cycle students of the Professional School of Law of the Private University of Tacna, as well as the relationship between their dimensions. The research has a quantitative approach, its purpose is of a basic or pure type, with a non-experimental design and a level of correlational knowledge. The instruments, the Academic Procrastination Scale (EPA) and the SISCO Inventory of Academic Stress (IEA), were used. With a sample of 91 students. Giving as results 92.31% of the students present levels of high or very high procrastination, 67.03% do not present high levels of stress, however, we found that 32.97% if they present it, no significant relationship was found between the procrastination variable and that of academic stress, given a value of p = 0.353 and there is no relationship between its dimensions.