College Student&rsquo;s Cognitive Absorption, Cyberloafing, Psychological Capital and Academic Procrastination: An Empirical Perspective from Capiz Province

Ace  Bombaes,; Maria Teresa  Cosico,; Felimon  Pimentel Jr.,; Maria Archie  Cabig,; Arlene  Leron,; Shirley  Hoñez,; Leah Rose  Cada,; Mary Jane  Laguna,

College Student’s Cognitive Absorption, Cyberloafing, Psychological Capital and Academic Procrastination: An Empirical Perspective from Capiz Province

Discipline: Education

Abstract:

The study investigated and explore the impacts of cognitive absorption, cyberloafing, and psychological capital on college students’ academic procrastination using a survey. There were 381 participants from different colleges in Capiz who were randomly selected. Adopted and self-made instruments were validated by the panel of experts and underwent pilot testing with 30 students who were not included as participants in the study. The independent variables in this study were cognitive absorption, cyberloafing, and psychological capital, while the dependent variable was academic procrastination. The instruments were tested with the aid of SPSS using the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Findings show that through cognitive absorption, students who become addicted to social media platforms become less attentive to, less conscious of, and unaware of potential negative consequences because they are cognitively absorbed; the effects of cyberloafing can be positively and negatively perceived depending on one’s intention and can affect the individual’s learning capacity resulting from participatory decision-making and interaction with the external environment; psychological assets can reduce and decrease risk and the impacts of academic procrastination, thus preventing students from delaying and putting off their academic tasks.

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