Shyness and academic procrastination among Chinese adolescents: a moderated mediation model of self-regulation and self-focused attention.

ABSTRACT: Academic procrastination is a common concern among adolescents, but the correlation between shyness and academic procrastination and the internal mechanisms have not yet been thoroughly investigated. Based on a questionnaire survey with 1,279 Chinese middle school students, this study examined the effect of shyness on academic procrastination and its underlying mechanism of self-regulation and self-focused attention. Results revealed that: (1) shyness significantly predicted academic procrastination. (2) Self-regulation mediated the relationship between shyness and academic procrastination. (3) Self-focused attention played a moderating role in the first half of this mediation process. Specifically, higher level of self-focused attention strengthened the predictive effect of shyness on sel

SUBMITTER: Sun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10993869 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature