Abstract

• The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic procrastination of pre-service teachers. Cross-sectional survey research design was used in this study. A total of 550 pre-service teachers from Yangon University of Education participated in this study. As the research instruments, Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (ASES) developed by Sagone and Caroli (2014) and Academic Procrastination Scale developed by Thae Phyu Phyu Nyein (2022) were used. The reliability of ASES was 0.789 and that of APS was 0.932. Regarding gender, male pre-service teachers were more likely to procrastinate in academic tasks than female pre-service teachers, but significant gender related difference was not found on academic self-efficacy. Then, younger pre-service teachers were found to possess higher academic self-efficacy than older pre-service teachers, but more advanced pre-service teachers showed higher academic procrastination. Furthermore, younger pre-service teachers were found to possess higher academic self-efficacy than the older ones, but academic procrastination of older pre service teachers were found to be significantly higher than that of younger pre-service teachers. Moreover, pre-service teachers with lower daily internet use were more likely to have higher academic self-efficacy than the ones with higher daily internet use, but pre-service teachers with higher daily internet use were more likely to procrastinate in academic activities compared to those with lower daily internet use. According to the results of Pearson product-moment correlation, there was a significant negative correlation between academic self-efficacy and academic procrastination of pre-service teachers. The results pointed out that pre-service teachers with higher academic self-efficacy possessed lower academic procrastination. In addition, this study revealed that academic self-efficacy was a significant predictor of academic procrastination. Thus, this study can be beneficial to pre-service teacher education.