Structural modeling of Relationships among sex, statistical self efficacy, statistics anxiety, and academic procrastination on electronic learning environment university students

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Psychology "Measurement and Evaluation" - College of Education - King Khalid University - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations between sex, academic procrastination, and anxiety toward statistics,  and statistical self-efficacy in statistics course by using the structural equation model. The sample consisted of 156 undergraduate  76 (48.7%) and graduate  80  (50.3%) students who enrolled in some Saudi universities (king khield, king abd- elaziz, hafr elbatan), sex, male 89) (57.1%) and female 67 (42.9% ( . Students responded to scales assessing their levels of (a) academic procrastination, (b) anxiety toward statistics, and (c). Statistical self-efficacy.  Data were analyzed using SPSS(26) and MPLUS (7). In general, the results showed that statistical self-efficacy has a negative direct effect on academic procrastination and anxiety toward statistics, anxiety toward statistics has a positive direct effect on academic procrastination, and sex has negative effect on academic procrastination   . There is no indirect effect from statistical self-efficacy on academic procrastination through anxiety toward statistics. Knowledge about the role of statistical self- efficacy and anxiety toward statistics with academic procrastination may assist college counselors to develop interventions for students that suffer from delaying academic behaviors on statistics course that negatively affect academic success.

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