Academic Procrastination and Its Relationship to University Climate among University Students with Disability in Yemen

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating the levels of academic procrastination (AP) and university climate (UC), and identifying the relationship between AP and UC among university students with disability (USWD). It, also, aimed at investigating the differences in each of AP and UC among USWD with respect to type of disability (visual impairment VI, hearing impairment HI and motor disability MD). The study sample consisted of 203 USWD distributed into 85 students with VI, 64 students with HI and 54 students with MD. The data was collected using the academic procrastination scale and the university climate scale. The results of the study revealed that the level of AP is average among students with HI and low among students with both MD and VI, whereas, the UC is high among students with HI, average among students with MD and negative among students with VI. The results, also, showed that there is no relationship between AP and UC among the study sample as a whole and among each of the disability categories separately. Moreover, the results indicated that the level of AP was more in students with VI than students with HI, while there were no statistically significant differences between students with HI and students with MD. The results, also, indicated that the UC - as perceived by students – was more positive among students with HI when compare to students with MD and VI, and among students with MD when compare to students with VI.