Jitaru, Mălina-Alexia (2025) Balancing Well-Being and Value Awareness: The Role of Procrastination in Different Academic Levels. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Student well-being has been a topic at the forefront of research in recent years. To contribute to the existing body of knowledge on the topic, this study, framed in positive psychology and Self-Determination Theory, explores how university students’ awareness of their own personal values (value awareness) is related to their well-being as well as academic procrastination. The method employed a cross-sectional quantitative design to survey the 274 university students and used validated psychological instruments. Four hypotheses were tested: 1) value awareness increases as students progress through their studies; 2) greater value awareness correlates with lower procrastination; 3) satisfaction of the basic psychological needs as defined in the Self-Determination Theory mediates the relationship between academic procrastination and value awareness; and 4) domestic students display higher levels of value awareness than international ones. Statistical analyses revealed no significant differences between value awareness across different academic levels and no differences in value awareness between domestic and foreign students. However, value awareness was found to be negatively associated with academic procrastination. Furthermore, the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs partially mediated the link between value awareness and academic procrastination. This suggests that value awareness influenced procrastination both directly and through its effect on autonomy, competence and relatedness. The implications of the current paper relate to the potentially developing interventions that foster value awareness and support students’ basic psychological needs in higher education, with the aim of improving well-being in higher education.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Ballato, L. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2025 08:55 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2025 08:55 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5545 |
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