Background Research
We started our research
by visiting our favorite search engine, Google. We first searched
"Favorite Sport Survey" and clicked on the first link. For "Favorite
Sports" survey results.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/kidusasu/favsport/resfscbg.htm.
Then we wanted to know what
procrastination really is and what effects it had, so we went back
to our friend, Google, and typed "effects of procrastination" and we
were given many sites. After reading through some of them, we
stumbled across a website titled
http://www.stopprocrastinatinginfo.com.
On this website we discovered
what procrastination really is. Procrastination is the act of
putting off essential task until a later time, most of the time the
non essential tasks are done before the critical ones. We then
started thinking why do we procrastinate and the website says there
are many reasons of this habit. For example, we may put things off
because we don't enjoy doing these things. We may think if we can't
do it perfect we may as well not do it at all. So now we know what
procrastination is and what some of the reasons for it are, but what
are the effects? On the website we navigated to the "Effects
of Procrastination" page. We read about the various effects that
procrastination has on our lives. It can affect our personal life
and also our employment (that can affect the rest of our life).
Procrastination can be very stressful which makes it unhealthy for
your body and also for your relationships. Studies have been done
that show anxiety may compromise our immune system which gives a
greater chance for getting infections. The effects of
procrastination is not just limited to stress, but can also effect
your finances.
We searched on Google again to see if there was a relationship or difference between who procrastinates more, males or females. I downloaded a PDF file which included a study of different reasons for procrastination and between males and females in school with their GPA. We went back to see if they had a study of just procrastination vs. males and females.
We did a new search and typed in “gender & school performance & procrastination” in order to see what the difference is between the genders, school performance (grades) and procrastination. So we went to our friend Google and it yielded us a site with the title “Tween time management: Personality, Gender & School Performance.” This was a study conducted by the Educational Testing Center in New Jersey. Their study was conducted on middle school children. They found that the indicated time management is much different than of adults. The study found that boys are more prone to less school performance and higher levels of procrastination because boys spend their time doing other various non-academic activities such as computer gaming, television, sports and the Internet. The author notes
That is, poor time management practices may lead boys to spending more time on non-productive activity (if gender differences in time management lead to gender differences in the use of time), or else the greater amount of time boys spend on leisure activities may lead to greater difficulty in time management. Gender differences in academic achievement . . . may be partially explained by gender differences in Planning and other such psychosocial factors/span> (p. 5 of the in press manuscript).
This shows that boys spend more time doing leisure activities which results in pushing things back such as important papers while girls spend their time writing these papers. We decided to stop our study after finding this amazing study on the topic that we were researching as it gave us a lot of important answers to the difference in procrastination and gender for us teenagers.