Investigating the mediating role of students' academic achievement in the relationship between anxiety sensitivityand academic procrastination

Increasing numerous problems and stressful situations such as coronary heart disease have caused students to not be able to master their homework, so they mainly try to escape from homework with procrastination, so knowing the predictors of procrastination is very important given the current situation. Considering that this study aimed to investigate the mediating role of students' educational expectation in the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and academic procrastination, so in terms of purpose, it is a descriptive and correlational study based on the method of data collection. The statistical population of this study includes ۳۸۵ high school students in Bukan city who were selected as a sample by voluntary and electronic sampling. The research instruments included Reese and Patterson Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaire, Solomon and Roth Bloom's Academic Procrastination Questionnaire, and Schen Moran et al. According to the findings, anxiety sensitivity and education expectancy are effective in academic procrastination (sig <۰.۰۵) and also the results showed that the mediating role of students' education expectancy in the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and academic procrastination is negative and significant (sig <۰.۰۵). Therefore, it can be concluded that educational expectation has a negative effect on the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and academic procrastination.