“I’m even less motivated”: Understanding of

Procrastination on Grade 12 Students in Pasay

City East High School during the pandemic

Researchers:
Maricel Cruz
Dathne Domingo
Erica Fermin
Rea Mausig
Lesly Sauza
Dyrine Caress Satparam
Background of the Study
The researchers aims is to conduct a study in which to
perceive the factors of procrastination among students
of Grade 12 HUMSS in Pasay City East High School
during in times of pandemic.
As the quarantine started the level of procrastination to
students gets more higher than before. The students
procrastinate more because they got a lot of time to kill
and postpone their school works.
Statement of the Problem
The researchers aims is to answer the following
questions:
1. How pandemic affects the students in adding the
level of procrastination in their new learning
situation?
2. Does scrolling in social media affects the motivation
of the students to do their workloads?
3. What are these factors that lead to students
procrastination in their quarantine life?
Scope and Delimitation
This study will be implemented to the selected
students of Grade 12 Senior High School in Pasay
City East High School only in the strand of HUMSS.
There will be at least 6 participants that are needed
for the study
Significance of the study
The Senior High School students – this research will
help the students to be conscious of the intervention they
need.
The Senior High Faculty Staff- this research will make
them mindful of the things they should recognize.
The Administrators of the School- this research will let
them be sensible to their students situation in the midst
of new learning.
The Parents- this research will help them to be a guide o
the things they need to know about their children habits.
The future researcher- this research will help them to
give a strong information in their future studies.
RRLAS map
According to Zacks and Hen (McCown, Blake, and Keiser
2012),
Murat Balkis and Erdinç Duru (September 2015) ,
Ziegler Niklas, Opdenakker Marie-Christine (2018),
Tarin and Rio (cited to Cao, 2012)

Fuertes et. Al ( Ainslie, G.,

Nilufer Bekleyen (2017) , PROCRASTINATION 2011),
Dela Cruz (2014),
Ona, Jenilly A.(2013)

Dilao and Flores (2012),

Balmonte and Aquino (2019)
(cited to Shouwenburg),
Grunt et al. (2002)
Research Design
The researchers used grounded theory as their
design to create a new theory from the data
collected and analyzed. This method is used to
evolve the context in which the case under study
occurs.
Participants
The participants of the study is the Grade 12-HUMSS
students of Pasay City East High School, in which 6-8
students will paticipate.
Sampling method
The researchers used purposive sampling as their
method. Researchers will choose their participant that
they can use in their study in Grade 12-HUMMS
students in Pasay City East High School to gather a
strong and reliable data.
Research Instruments
The researchers choose online-interview to gather
the data needed for the study, including the
participants profile, the complete response to the
queries, and the observed behaviors.
Research Procedure
Phase I: The researcher will formulate their research
question to file up the important data needed and
obtain firm information.
Phase II: The researchers will inform the chosen
participants about the online interview that will be
held at the specific date and time. The queries will
be on the spot to collect honest response.
Phase III: The interview will not going to take long
for the convenience of the participants. After the
researcher collect all the information, they will
categorize and label the data.
Data Gathering Technique
The researchers choose Focus Group Discussion as
their data gathering technique for their study. In this
way the researchers will gather a small group of
participants and discuss to them the study
conducted. This will help the researchers identify
and explore how their participants think and behave.
Data analysis
The researchers used Grounded Theory for their
study to formulate a new theory about the
understanding of procrastination to Grade 12-
HUMSS students in Pasay City East High School
during the pandemic.
Result
The researchers have gathered a result that procrastination exist in Grade
12 students because of:
•Lack of Motivation
•Stress
•A lot of school works
•Internet Connection
•Household chores

Things to overcome their procrastination are:

•Parents or Teachers Motivation
•Time management
•Self discipline
•Stable mindset and good perspective
Discussion
The researchers focus in this study is to understand
the procrastination happening to the students in Grade
12-HUMSS Students of Pasay City East High School.
This is to determine whether the pandemic causes the
students to level up their procrastination. The
researcher’s objective is to know:
Whether students procrastinate more this days
The factors that lead to procrastination
The ways to avoid procrastinating, and
The kind of motivation needed
Findings
The followings are the findings based on the research
accomplished using an online platform; Google form.
Stress and anxiety- major factors that causes the
students to procrastinate even more during this
pandemic.
Distraction and Lack of Motivation- the more an
individual get distracted to the things around him, the
more their attention gets.
Laziness- the one that an individual always had a hard
time to battle with. It is either they fight with laziness or
let themselves eaten by this.
Low self-esteem and low self-confidence- there’s a
chance that a person be involved in procrastination
when they feel low and isolated
Teacher’s and Parental Guidance- as when a student’s
see that there is another person who cheer and
motivate them to finish a work they could possibly start
doing it and make their own schedule to balance their
time.
Time Management- some believe that in order for
students to avoid procrastinating is to set their
schedule and make a notes or onset task in a day.
Mindset and Perspective- all things starts from within
the persons will. In order for students to obey the
rules, the task given at them, they should set their
mindset in control.
Conclusion
According to the opinion of the respondents and the
findings of this research there is an effect of pandemic
showed up to students to procrastinate even more. In
this study the researchers determined the factors that
leads to students to procrastinate even more, the
reason why students do procrastinating and their ways
of how to avoid in setting aside their school works
Procrastination is inevitable though this could be
lessen through motivation, schedule, and good
balance.
Recommendation
Students must learn to follow their set schedule in order to
finish their school works.
Students should know their goals in the near future to
encouraged themselves to work harder and start doing
what’s at hand for them
Set an alarm for the time the students should just study and
his time to leisure.
Parents must guide their children and preach them o the
things they should prioritize first.
Teachers should give a motivational talk or quote to their
students before their day start, this will make their mindset
stable and inspired.
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