Academic Procrastination Among Students of AlMaarif University College

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The aim of the study is to identify the level of academic procrastination among students of AlMaarif University College, Iraq, and its prevalence, and whether there is a difference in its level according to academic specialization, academic levels, gender (males, females), and economic and social level. The study was applied to a sample of (234) male and female students divided into (6) six sections, according to the academic specialization and its stages. The researcher used a scale consisting of (22) items. The results of the study revealed that (67, 19%) of the students are of high academic procrastination, (71, 51%) have average procrastination, and (63, 28%) have low procrastination. The results also showed that the arithmetic means of the total sample was ( 57, 63) degrees, while the hypothetical average is (66) degrees, and when arranging the arithmetic average degrees according to the academic specialization in descending order, it turned out that the highest was among the students of the Department of Medical Laboratory Technologies, then followed by the Department of Civil Engineering, the Computer Technologies Department, the Department of English Language, Physical education, and the lowest was the Arabic language department, and it was found that the level of academic procrastination in the pure scientific departments is higher than that of students in the humanities departments, and this means that there is a relationship between academic procrastination and the variable of academic specialization, while the research revealed that there is no relationship between academic procrastination and the variables of academic specialization. Academic levels and gender (males, females), while it was clear that there was a weak relationship between academic procrastination and the economic, and social level.