Author(s)

Yukun Jiang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Beijing Academy, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Yukun Jiang

ABSTRACT

Most students experience learning-related procrastination that is more or less the result of spending time having fun. Although researchers have explored and researched the influencing factors and internal mechanisms of this phenomenon, due to the diversity of students' reasons for procrastinating, the measures used in this context have often encountered problems. In this paper, the current situation of students' academic procrastination and possible solutions to this problem are investigated and analyzed, and data are collected from 711 questionnaire surveys. Using the time-inconsistent preferences model, the degree of procrastination and time preferences of the interviewed students in different regions are calculated and analyzed, and the correlations among time-inconsistent preferences, urban–rural differences and respondents' degree of procrastination are identified. A polynomial fitting model that exhibits good correlation and accurately reflects the relationships among these factors is designed. Finally, the analysis results are summarized, and a hierarchical incentive mechanism is suggested, which provides a novel idea and an effective method for helping students overcome procrastination.

KEYWORDS

Urban-rural differences, Time-inconsistent preferences, Academic procrastination, Discounted model

CITE THIS PAPER

Yukun Jiang, Investigation of Academic Procrastination Based on Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Urban-Rural Differences. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 110-119. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.061016.

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