A total of 558 university students participated in the study examining the relationship between morningness, , and burnout.
Female students reported higher exhaustion scores compared to male students.
Freshman students exhibited higher morningness scores than sophomore and junior students.
Significant relationships were found among morningness, academic procrastination, and .
Academic procrastination was identified as a partial mediator in the relationship between morningness and burnout.
Avoiding procrastination, particularly in evening-type students, may be linked to lower academic burnout, though causality cannot be confirmed.
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BACKGROUND: , which is an individual difference, is associated with the of university students. In addition, is common among university students, and students who procrastinate experience more anxiety, stress, and negative thoughts. Therefore, academic procrastination may mediate the relationship between morningness and academic burnout.
METHODS: This study examines the effects of academic procrastination and morningness on academic burnout and explores the mediating role of academic procrastination in the relationship between morningness and burnout. A total of 558 university students participated in the study. A total of 119 of these students were male, and 439 were female. The ages of the students ranged from 18 to 22 years.
RESULTS: Female students had higher exhaustion scores than male students did, and freshman students had higher morningness scores than both sophomore and junior students did. The relationships between all the variables examined were significant. The mediation analyses revealed that procrastination has a partial mediating role in the relationship between the morningness and burnout dimensions.
CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study suggest that procrastination may help explain some of the links between morningness and burnout. Avoiding the procrastination tendencies of individuals, especially those who are evening-type, may be associated with lower levels of academic burnout, though causality cannot be confirmed due to the cross-sectional nature of the study.
Key numbers
32%
Procrastination and Exhaustion Increase
Procrastination accounts for 32% of the effect of morningness on exhaustion.
558
Sample Size
Total number of university students included in the study.
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Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study received ethical approval from the Educational Research and Publication Ethics Committee of Sakarya University (permission number: 2024/44). Informed consent to participate in the study was provided while the data were collected, and all of the participants agreed to participate in the study. Consent for publication: Not applicable. Instrument use and permissions: Permission to use all measurement instruments employed in this study was obtained via email correspondence with the authors of the adaptation studies. Each instrument was used with explicit written consent for research purposes. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
