A Comparative study of Academic Resilience and Academic Procrastination amongst Secondary Stage School Students in Regards to Gender, Academic Stream and School Type

Kajal Devi; Ashwarya Srivastava

A Comparative study of Academic Resilience and Academic Procrastination amongst Secondary Stage School Students in Regards to Gender, Academic Stream and School Type

Author(s)	Km. Kajal Devi, Ashwarya Srivastava
Country	India
Abstract	This current research is titled “A Comparative Study of Academic Resilience and Academic Procrastination amongst Secondary Stage School Students with Regards to Gender, Academic Stream and School Type.” This research was conducted in order to identify the difference in academic resilience and academic procrastination amongst the secondary stage school students with regards to gender, academic stream, and school type. Academic resilience entails the ability of the students to cope with academic problems, while academic procrastination is defined as unnecessary delaying of academic tasks.Sample of 600 secondary stage school children was selected for this study, including 300 male and 300 female students. Sample students belonged to three categories of streams including Science, Commerce, and Humanities/Arts streams as well as to government and private schools. Academic resilience and academic procrastination were measured using standardized tests for data collection. Analysis of collected data was carried out using descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test, and one way ANOVA.The results showed that there is a statistically significant gender gap in academic resilience, where the academic resilience of female students is higher than that of male students. There is also a statistically significant academic stream gap in academic resilience, where Science students showed a high level of academic resilience. Another statistically significant gap in academic resilience exists in the school type variable, where the students from government schools scored a higher mean than the students from private schools. On the issue of academic procrastination, the results revealed that there is a statistically significant gender gap, where male students have a higher level of academic procrastination than female students. The same is true for the academic stream and school type variables.From all the above findings, it is evident that gender, type of academic streams and type of schools have great impacts on the understanding of the resilience of students academically and their tendencies towards procrastination. There are lessons from this study to teachers, counsellors, parents and educational institutions.
Keywords	Academic Resilience, Academic Procrastination, Secondary Stage School Students, Gender, Academic Stream, School Type.
Field	Sociology > Education
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On	2026-09-29

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