Purpose: Preventing business failure remains a significant challenge for small businesses in the Netherlands. Given their importance for the Dutch economy, understanding the causes of business failure and equipping business owners with strategies for resilience is imperative. This dissertation seeks …

Procrastination is one of the most common challenges when it comes to studying and working productively. You may not feel like studying for a while, feel demotivated, become easily distracted, feel tired, or find a certain task difficult. You might also suffer from perfectionism or fear of failure. Perhaps …

Bachelor Thesis about Academic Procrastination in the digital learning environment Blackboard.

In opdracht van Onderzoekslijn Procrastination van Hogeschool Saxion is er onderzoek gedaan naar de effecten van de quarantainesamenleving op thuiswerken en zelfwerkzaamheid bij Toegepaste Psychologie studenten. Het doel van het onderzoek is om een passende interventie te maken die succesvol studiegedrag …

Maar liefst 50 procent van de studenten stelt uit tot het moment dat het problematisch wordt (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984; Steel, 2007). Onderzoek van de afgelopen vier decennia heeft ruimschoots aangetoond dat individuele factoren een significante rol spelen bij uitstelgedrag. Daarentegen hebben omgevingsfactoren …

Academic procrastination is one of the leading factors that makes students dropping out from school in The Netherlands. Especially among students in higher education. Saxion University of Applied Sciences has started an extensive research on academic procrastination. The purpose of this study is to investigate …

Procrastination is a big problem among students. Several studies show that 38% to 95% of the students procrastinate (Ackermann & Gross, 2005; Ellis & Knaus, 1977 in Janssen & Carton, 1999; Özer & Saçkes, 2011; Schouwenburg, 1992; Schraw, Wadkins & Olafson, 2007; Strunk, Cho, Steele & Bridges, 2013). …

Het hbo kampt met gering studiesucces van studenten in termen van studievoortgang, uitval en gepercipieerde competentie. Welke maatregelen kan het hbo nemen? Deze bijdrage, gebaseerd op het proefschrift ‘One size fits all?’, gaat over leerpsychologische factoren en interactionalistische factoren waaruit …

Procrastination – delaying the start or completion of intended work – is extremely common among higher education students. The situation in Materials Science 1 course is a point in case. Students in this course tended to postpone their learning activities until just before the end-of-course assessment. …

We explored how two types of study outcomes, perceived competence and earned credits, are interrelated, and influenced by self-regulation, motivation (intrinsic value and expectancy of procrastination) and deep approach to learn- ing. The relationships between these variables were analysed in a sample …