Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to analyze the graduate theses on academic procrastination published in Turkey to evaluate their status in terms of various variables. For this purpose, a list of the theses was obtained as a result of a search in the National Thesis Center using the keywords “academic procrastination” in both Turkish and English languages. From the list, all the open-access theses of which sample consisted of students were included in the study. In line with the determined criteria, a total of 101 graduate theses published between 2003 and 2021 were analyzed through document analysis based on the descriptive content analysis method. The distribution of the theses was examined based on variables including the program type, year of publication, the university, institute, and department where the study was conducted, language, gender of the researcher, research design, sampling method, sample size, region of the data collection, level of education and the data collection tool used to measure academic procrastination. The study revealed that the theses were mostly written in the master’s program (86.14%), in 2019 (15.84%), at Gazi University (5.94%), in the Institute of Educational Sciences (56.44%), in the Department of Educational Sciences (53.47%), in the Turkish language (92.08%), by female researchers (59.41%), based on survey design (94.06%), using random sampling (59.41%), with a sample size of 400-499 (22.77%), with data collected from Central Anatolia (28.71%) from undergraduate students (53.46%) using the Academic Procrastination Scale (56.43%) developed by Çakıcı (2003).

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