Estrés, ansiedad y depresión como factores asociados a la procrastinación académica en estudiantes universitarios peruanos

Abstract

The influence of stress, anxiety, and depression (SAD) on academic procrastination (AP) in the context of COVID-19 was analyzed; a predictive study in 1069 Peruvian students aged 18 to 25 from a public university recruited by non-probabilistic sampling and assessed using the Academic Procrastination Scale and the DASS-21 Scale. The results reflect significant differences in academic procrastination in favor of non-scholarship holders; likewise, for stress, anxiety, and depression in favor of: a) women, b) non-scholarship holders, c) without COVID-19 infection, and d) with family losses due to COVID-19; likewise, a positive correlation between AP and SAD (with emphasis on depression); this correlation is strengthened in the network analysis for the scholarship holder condition. Finally, regarding the analysis of structural equations: anxiety and stress are related at 0.83; both variables explain depression at 63%. On the other hand, depression is presented as a cause of PA at 0.41 and this model has an explanatory value of 17% (with adjustment indices of CMIN/df = 0.305, CFI = 1.000, SRMR = 0.006, RMSEA = 0.000 and PClose = 0.974). The study reflects the predictive capacity of the E-A-D in the behavior of higher education students regarding their academic responsibility.