On the Effect of College Students’ Attitude towards computer on their Academic Procrastination

The central goal of the present research is to identify how college students’ attitude towards computer affects their studying/learning and academic procrastination.

The subject group consisted of a group of 209 students taking general education courses at N University located in Choongnam, Korea. The collected data from a survey questionnaire was analyzed by using a set of statistical methods: a frequency analysis for demographic characteristics, a correlation analysis as well as a regression analysis.

It was found that the subfactors of the attitude under discussion-confidence, usefulness and desire to learn-showed a significant positive correlation among one another, while the negative feeling of anxiety or fear was not significantly correlated with other subfactors. Overall, however, the attitude toward computer was closely correlated with academic procrastination: the higher the attitude toward computer, the lower academic procrastination.

The findings of the current research are expected to help us recognize the importance of the attitude towards computer and to help students improve their learning capacity.