IMPLEMENTATION OF SELF-MONITORING STRATEGY OF SELF-MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE TO REDUCE ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION

Abstract

Students are agents of change, becoming someone who can provide solutions to the problems faced by a community of nations and countries. Students who do not have readiness to live a new life at the higher education level will certainly have difficulty in adjusting to the new learning atmosphere. One of the consequences that arises from the difficulty of self-adjustment is the emergence of procrastination behavior called procrastination. This behavior needs to be eliminated so as not to hamper students academic activities. This study aims to determine the causes of students having academic procrastination behavior and modify this behavior so that it can eliminate academic procrastination behavior in these students. This type of research is qualitative research with observation and interview methods. Observation is done by observing the behavior of the subject and the application of the techniques that have been designed. The technique used to change behavior is self management technique with self monitoring strategy. Interviews were conducted with the subject directly regarding the problem experienced, namely procrastination. The results showed that the application of self management techniques with self monitoring strategies can change students academic procrastination behavior.

Keywords : Self-management, Self-monitoring, Academic Procrastination