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Educational sector plays a crucial role in producing students who represent the future generation of a country. However, behavioural idiosyncrasies among youth such as consistent procrastinations may hamper the efforts put forth by higher learning institutions. Therefore, this study intends to examine the extent as to which time perspective components will predict academic procrastination. Time perspectives consist of three dimensions; present hedonistic, future and present fatalistic. The instruments employed to measure the research variables in this study were Tuckman Procrastination Scale, Procrastination Assessment Scale for Students (PASS) and Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI). Data from 367 master students at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Research findings showed a majority of the master students procrastinated prevalently in keeping up with weekly article readings, studying for final examination and writing research papers. There was a significant negative relationship between present hedonistic and present fatalistic time perspectives with academic procrastinations but future time perspective had a significant positive relationship with academic procrastinations. All three dimensions of time perspectives were the predictors of academic procrastinations. In conclusion, the findings serve as empirical evidence that different time perspectives have significant but different influences on academic procrastination.
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