ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION SCALE: CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION

The research paper deals with the construction and standardization of Academic Procrastination Scale for secondary school students of Punjab. At initial stage, 67 statements covering six facets of academic procrastination were tentatively framed. Later on, number of items was reduced to 65 after thoroughly survey & carefully scrutinized by the subject experts. Further, item-analysis was carried out to finalize items. Lastly, a set of 45 items were retained for the final scale out of which 34 positive and 11 negative items. The test- retest reliability was found to be 0.84, whereas Cronbach's coefficient alpha was 0.86. the content validity of the scale was assured from subject experts.