Correlation Between Self-Adjustment and Academic Procrastination At Student’s of Boarding School SMP N 3 Peterongan Jombang

Abstract

An education alternative proposed to generate well qualified human
 resources is boarding type school which is located in Islamic boarding school.
 Boarding school students are faced with very different situation than home. Dense
 activities make the students should be capable of dividing time for school,
 boarding house and other activities. Overcapacity in the boarding house makes it
 possible to evoke low supervision situation. That condition enables students
 susceptible with procrastinate behavior, particularly in academic field. Academic
 procrastination is a habit which can causes various negative consequences, like
 time wasting and school tasks abandoning.
 This research is purposed to study the relation of self-adjustment with
 academic procrastination to the students of SMP N 3 Jombang. This research used
 cluster random sampling technique. Researched subjects were 97 students.
 Researched measuring instrument used self-adjustment scale with 26 items (a =
 0,877) and academic procrastination scale with 27 items (a = 0,898). Both scales
 are arranged with Likert mode scaling and its analysis statistic is used computer
 program SPSS version 16.0. Simple regression analysis resulted rxy = -0.463,
 with p = 0,000 (p<0,05).
 The result shows that there is a negative relation between self-adjustment
 with academic procrastination. The higher the student self adjustment, the lower
 the academic procrastination. Determination coefficient is 0,214, means that Self
 adjustment gives effective contribution of 21,4% to academic procrastination. The
 remainder of 78,6% is determined by other factors which are not revealed in this
 research.
 
 Keywords: Self-Adjustment, Academic Procrastination, Boarding School