THE SEVERITY OF PROCRASTINATION DEPENDING ON THE COURSE OF STUDENTS AND THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused rapid and unexpected changes in higher education environment. Many educational institutions around the world have switched to distance learning, which has greatly influenced all aspects of student life. The present study aims to analyze the severity of procrastination among students and examine the effect of COVID-19 on academic procrastination during distance learning. With a total of 130 participants, the sample of the study consists of 87 female and 43 male students studying at the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Data collection tools used in the study are Academic Procrastination Scale (APS) and Tuckman General Procrastination Scale (TGPS), as well as an additional author's list of questions regarding the relationship between distance learning and academic procrastination. The results of the study found that the severity of students' procrastination does not depend on the course. The results also revealed that the level of academic procrastination increasedl greatly in connection with distance learning during COVID-19, as more factors appeared that influenced this relationship (lack of feedback, lack of self-discipline, strong anxiety due to the lack of live communication with classmates, no change of scenery).