THE INFLUENCE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PHYSICS LEARNING INTEREST AND SELF-EFFICACY ON ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION IN PHYSICS MAJORS

The academic procrastination of physics majors seriously affects the cultivation of high quality physics talents. Studying the influence of physics learning interest and physics self-efficacy is important for us to analyze the causes of academic procrastination of college students majoring in physics. Based on a survey of 208 physics majors and correlation and structural equation analysis, this paper studied the mechanism of the influence of physics learning interest and self-efficacy on academic procrastination. The results showed that: (1) more than 40% of physics majors have serious academic procrastination, and more than 70% want to reduce their academic procrastination; (2) Physics learning interest has no direct effect on academic procrastination, but it can indirectly affect academic procrastination through physics self-efficacy; (3) Physical self-efficacy directly and negatively affects academic procrastination. Therefore, some suggestions are put forward for the teachers and students of physics majors to reduce their academic procrastination.