Özet:

This study has a general screening model and its purpose is to analyze the academic procrastination behaviors of the adolescents studying in the province of Giresun in the 2014-2015 academic year in terms of their gender, class level, branch selection, and academic success status. The Personal Information Form created by the researchers and the “Academic Procrastination Scale” developed by Çakıcı (2003) to determine the academic procrastination behaviors of students were used in the study as data collection instruments. Frequency distribution, T test for Independent Groups, Anova, Correlation, Simple and Multiple Regression Analysis were utilized as statistical analysis of the study. Study findings show that the academic procrastination tendencies of students vary according to gender, class level, branch, and academic success levels. Regression Analysis indicates a negative correlation between academic procrastination and academic success. The predictor model on the academic procrastination behavior shows that the biggest contribution among the variables was made by the class level and academic success status. The findings were interpreted within the context of the literature

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