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Objectives: The study is intended to investigate gender difference on academic procrastination & smart-phone addiction among the secondary school students. Furthermore the study was also aimed to study the influence of smart-phone addiction on academic procrastination. Method: The current study adopted the mixed method research design, Such a design amalgamates the powers of diverse research approaches to proliferate accuracy of data, allows for generating more clear picture of the novel phenomenon (Creswell, 2014). Sample: The present study was conducted on secondary school student of South Kashmir (n = 200). Statistical techniques like S.D. and t-test were used for data analysis. Instrumentation / Psychometric Measures: The following standardised tools were used to collect the required data. I. Academic Procrastination Scale by A. K. Kalia and Manju Yadav II. Smart phone Addiction Scale by Vijayshri and Masaud Ansari. III. Semi-structured and in-depth interview. Results: The results revealed that a significant mean difference was observed between male and female secondary school students on academic procrastination and smartphone addiction. Male students are found to procrastinate their academics more and also exhibit more smart-phone addiction as compared to female students. Furthermore factors like cyber-loafing, anxiety & depression and poor time management are found to facilitate academic procrastination among the students.

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