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The Relationship Between Fear of Failure and Student
Academic Achievement With Procrastination as
Mediating Variable
Brilliant Sanny Anoita1, *Sri Tiatri1, Meylisa Permata Sari1
1Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Tarumanagara, Jakarta 11440, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: sri.tiatri@untar.ac.id
ABSTRACT
Academic achievement is the result obtained after studying for a certain period. For undergraduate students,
GPA (Grade Point Average) is the result obtained by students while studying in college. During the study
process, there are several aspects that can influence it. This study aims to find out whether there is a relationship
between fear of failure and student academic achievement, with procrastination as the mediating variable. The
subjects of this study were 52 people consisting of 37 female subjects (71.2%) and 15 male subjects (28.8%).
The results of this study indicate that procrastination does not mediate the relationship between fear of failure
and student academic achievement.
Keywords: procrastination, fear of failure, academic achievement
1. INTRODUCTION
Education can have a major impact on individuals or
students, both in terms of broader insights or changing
behavior patterns to be more organized. Academic
achievement can be obtained through student’s effort by
learning and study in their school or colleague. Winkel
(1996) explained that learning achievement is a testament
to the success of a student's learning or ability to carry out
his/her learning activities in accordance with the achievable
worth. In terms of insight, the outcome that can be generated
for individuals or students who underwent education are
obtaining values as proof of successful learning or the
ability of students to carry out their learning activities called
learning achievements.
In this study, researchers used procrastination as one of the
factors that mediates the fear of failure that can disrupt
student learning processes and have an impact on student
academic achievement. Academic procrastination makes
students postpone their academic duties and ignore their
academic obligations during the study period (Karatas,
2015).
This research is based on the results of interviews with a
university X student showing that this students have
academic achievement or GPA of 3.4. Meanwhile,
according to the observations of researchers and several
other students, this student is intelligent, has broad insight,
and high analytical and logical thinking skills. After further
exploration through interviews with this student, this
student has high standards of thought and high expectations
in thinking. If something does not meet his expectations,
then he will delay or abandon his obligations as a student
and choose to play games to find a more pleasant sensation.
(SI, Personal Communication, 2020). This is in line with
the opinion of McElroy (2016) published by the Journal of
Health Psychology stating that more intelligent people tend
to be lazier in their activities, because they present cognitive
challenges that require more effort to complete.
From the results of interviews and observations above,
researchers used it as consideration for conducting this
research. There are some high potential students with a high
level of thinking and broad insight but they do not achieve
maximum marks. This means that the self-actualization of
these students is less than their potential. This is caused by,
among others, procrastination and perfectionism possessed
by students. Procrastination is a behavior that can be found
in almost all parts of the world and often found among
students.
The research question about this research is procrastination
act as mediator variable in the relationship between fear of
failure and academic achievement.
Based on the background that has been described, this
research has a hypothesis that procrastination act as a
mediating variable in the relationship between fear of
failure and academic achievement.
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1.1 Related Research
This study is divided into three variables. This study using
three variables; procrastination, fear of failure, and
academic achievement.
1.1.1 Procrastination
According to Solomon and Rothblum (1984), academic
procrastination is divided into a number of objects including
delays in writing assignments, study assignments for exams,
reading assignments, administrative assignments, attending
lessons or meeting with thesis guide, to activities around
university. According to Lay (in Karatas, 2015),
procastination is explained as a tendency to delay the
initiation or completion of an important task. Steel (in Chen,
et al., 2016) defines procrastination as a deliberate delay
from the intended action, despite being aware of the
negative results of the delay.
A survey by New Statement magazine 26 February 1999
suggested that approximately 20% to 70% of students
procrastinate (Yuanita, 2010). From previous foreign
research conducted by Rothblum, et al. (1986) 40.6% of 379
subjects procrastinated. Meanwhile, from Rizki's research
(2009)(DAFPUS) there was a prevalence of 48.5% of the
66 subjects of North Sumatra University students who
procrastinated. So it can be concluded that procrastination
is a universal problem. In a study by De Castella, et al
(2013) there were results that showed that the orientation of
success largely moderated the relationship between fear of
failure and academic achievement in high schools in Japan
and Australia. In a previous study conducted by Meek, et al.
(2015) when viewed from a cognitive perspective,
uncertainty about the future can reduce felt competence (the
ability to act effectively), disrupt motivation (Deci & Ryan,
2000), and increase procrastination behavior (Haghbin et
al., 2012).
1.1.2 Fear of Failure
Fear of failure is a tendency to assess threats and feel
anxious about situations involving the possibility of failure
(Conroy, et al., 2007). Conroy (2002) stated that successful
people often claim that fear of failure can either motivate
them to a high level of performance or prevent them from
actualizing their potential. The consequences of fear of
failure can be fatal, as fear of failure is associated with
achievement, mental health, moral development, and
physical health. Fear of failure among students can prevent
them from achieving the maximum actualization of their
potential by decreasing student performance in learning so
that they fail to get maximum results. Conroy (2002) states
that fear of failure is an encouragement to avoid failure,
especially the negative consequences such as shame,
lowered self-concept, and loss of social influence.
Among students, fear of failure can cause them to act
nonproductively, such as procrastinating as a form of
behavior to avoid negative consequences. Uncertainty about
the future is one aspect of fear of failure. Uncertainty about
the future can increase procrastination behavior among
students and make them feel helpless or unable to act
effectively.
Fear of failure is highly disruptive for most individuals,
both in completing tasks and in daily activities. Not only in
everyday life, fear of failure can also be felt by students.
This leads to some students choosing not to make any effort
to achieve the progress needed to reach their goals.
Research by Akmal, et al. (2017), found a relationship
between students who are writing a thesis and fear of failure
in predicting the potential for procastination.
Procrastination is a result of fear of failure felt by many,
especially students. The combination of uncertainty about
results and pressure for success can lead to fear of failure
that plays an important role in human behavior, where
actions are delayed due to fear of negative results (Conroy
et al., 2002; Haghbin et al., 2012, quoted in Meek et al.,
2015).
Therefore, it can be seen that individuals tend to be afraid
of things that are uncertain, such as one's future and that fear
makes the individual afraid to take a step forward and
instead chooses to delay the steps that he/she should take.
Many students are aware of the negative effects of
procastination, but students continue to procrastinate
because it has become a habit. Rothblum and Solomon (in
Ferrari, Johnson & McGown, 1995 cited in Mujahidah and
Mudjiran, 2019) in regards to academic procrastination said
that fear of failure is one of the individual factors for
academic procrastination behavior.
1.1.3 Academic Achievement
At tertiary education level, students are required to do their
utmost in the learning process to get satisfying results.
Students are required to be active in the learning process
both in the classroom, and through other media such as
journals, scientific papers and books. Chaplin (2001)
claimed that academic achievement in the field of academic
education is a special level of achievement or the result of
expertise in academic work that is assessed by teachers,
through standardized tests, or through a combination of the
two.
In tertiary institutions, academic achievement is described
as the Grade Point Average (GPA) achieved by students. If
students cannot reach the standard values set by the college,
they will get sanctions as a consequence.
Based on the description above, there are several factors that
can cause procastination in individuals. Procrastination is
reinforced by students' fear of failure. Both of these
variables can affect the results of academic achievement of
students who experience academic procrastination. The
motivation of this research is to find out and test the
relationship between fear of failure with procrastination as
mediating variable and academic achievement of
undergraduate students. This research was conducted
during Covid-19, forcing participants to study at home.
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1.2 Our Contribution
This research provides developments in understanding
student academic achievement. Providing knowledge about
how procrastination can mediate the relationship between
fear of failure and student academic achievement.
2. METHOD
Researchers used quantitative method in a non-
experimental form with survey as data collection technique.
This research is a form of quantitative research with
correlational research method, because researchers want to
see the relationship between variables in research. The
variables studied in this study were fear of failure and
academic achievement of students mediated by
procrastination. Participants in this study have an age range
of 20 to 24 years. Based on the results obtained, the most
subjects were 21 years old, as many as 26 participants
(50%). For more information, see table 1.
Table 1. Participants Grouped by Age
Age
Frequency
Valid
Percent
Cumulative Percent
20
21
22
23
24
Total
3
23
17
4
2
52
5,8
50,0
32,7
7,7
3,8
100,0
5,8
55,8
88,5
96,2
100.0
Based on the data, there were 52 participants who
participated in this research, including 37 women (71.2%)
and 15 men (28.8%). For more information, see table 2.
Table 2. Participants Grouped by Sex
The population in this study are active students. Researchers
used a sample of 384 based on Krejcie and Morgan's tables
(1970), which consisted of students taken using
nonprobability sampling techniques (which means that
samples were taken randomly). However, based on
consideration of data processing needs due to the Social
Distancing and Work From Home regulations, researchers
used as many as 52 participants. Researchers used GPA
(Grade Point Average) of students to measure student
academic achievement.
In measuring the variables, the researcher used two
measuring instruments; (a) The Performance Failure
Appraisal Inventory (Conroy, 2003) to measure the fear of
failure in students and (b) Procrastination Academic Scale-
Students (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). The fear of failure
variable is measured using the PFAI (performance failure
appraisal inventory) measuring instrument developed by
Conroy (2003). PFAI measures the strength of confidence
in individuals related to the consequences of a failure.
Scores are given for each dimension of fear of failure; (a)
fear of experiencing shame, (b) fear of devaluing oneself,
(c) fear of having an uncertain future, (d) fear of important
people being disinterested, (e) fear of making important
people disappointed.
In this instrument, the responses are described in the form
of a standard 5-point Likert scale, 1 which is distrust to
number 5 which is complete trust. The higher the score
obtained from the questionnaire filled out by participants,
the higher the value of fear of failure they have. As for the
internal consistency reliability coefficient for this variable,
the value is 0.703. For more information, see table 3.
Table 3. Reliability of Fear of Failure Instrument
Fear of failure
Alpha Cronbach
.767
Measurement of procrastination in students used the PASS
(procrastination academic scale-students) measuring
instrument developed by Solomon and Rothblum (1984).
PASS measures the level of student procrastination by
measuring 3 areas: (a) the prevalence of academic
procrastination, (b) the reason for doing procrastination, and
(c) comparing procrastination scores with behaviors that
indicate those behaviors with procrastination. The
researcher uses the prevalence section of procrastination
which is divided into 6 academic areas: (1) writing term
paper, (2) studying for exams, (3) keeping up weekly
reading assignments, (4) academic administrative tasks, (5)
attendance tasks, and ( 6) school activities in general.
In the questionnaire, the response to this measuring
instrument is described in the form of a standard 5-point
Likert scales. The final result of the coefficient of internal
Sex
Frequency
Valid
Percent
Cumulative
Percent
Male
Female
Total
15
37
52
28,8
71,2
100,0
28,8
100,0
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consistency reliability for this variable is 0.905. For more
information, see table 4.
Tabel 4. Realiability of Procrastination Instrument
Procrastination
Alpha Cronbach
.905
3. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
3.1 Overview of Participants’ Procrastination
Measurement of student procrastination in this study used a
Likert scale of 1-5 with a mean value of 3. The measurement
results shows that empirical mean is smaller than the mean
value which means the participants’ procrastination is low
(M = 2.96, SD = 0.65).
3.2 Overview of Participants’ Fear of Failure
Measurement of fear of failure in this study uses Likert scale
from -2 to 2 with a mean value of 0. The measurement
results shows that the empirical mean is smaller than the
mean value which means the fear of failure of participants
is low (M = -0.041, SD = 0.68).
3.3 Overview of Participants’ GPA
Measurement of GPA of participants uses data
categorization to get several categories of GPA which are
classified as low, moderate, to high. Empirical data used for
making this categories (Azwar, 2012). For more
information, see table 5.
Table 5. GPA categorization
Category
GPA Score
Low
Moderate
High
X < 3,22
3,22 < X < 3,85
X > 3,85
From the data obtained, most participants had moderate
GPA, which consists of 35 people (67.3%). It can be
described that participants of this study are students with
moderate GPA. For more information, see table 8.
Table 6. Overview of Participants’ GPA
Category
Frequency
Valid
Percent
Cumulative
Percent
Low
Moderate
High
8
35
9
15,4
67,3
17,3
15,4
82,7
100,0
3.4 Hypothesis Testing
The final analysis, which is the indirect effect shows there
is no indirect significant relationship between fear of failure
and GPA through procrastination (b = 0,0006, 95% CI
[0,00250 , 0,0006]). Therefore, procrastination does not act
as a mediator between the fear of failure and GPA. For more
information, see Figure 1.
Figure 1. Relationships between Research Variables
4. DISCUSSION
In this study, the results show that procrastination does not
act as a mediator between the fear of failure and GPA. This
shows that the hypothesis of this research which is
"procrastination mediates the relationship between fear of
failure and academic achievement" in this study is rejected.
Based on the results of data analysis, it shows that
procrastination is not a variable that mediates the
relationship between fear of failure and academic
achievement.
These findings using students that have an age range of 20-
24 in college. In contrast to research conducted by De
Castella, et al (2013) that found a relationship between fear
of failure with academic process that is moderated by a
success orientation. The study involved high school
students in Japan and Australia as research subjects. The
subjects of this study showed a low level of procrastination
behavior and fear of failure, therefore researchers suspected
that the fear of failure variable is not suitable for study at X
University which the majority of the subjects of this study
are from.
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The hypothesis of this research that procrastination act as
mediator variable in the relationship between fear of failure
and academic achievement are rejected, there is possibility
it caused by the subject’s age. The subject of this study has
an age range of 20-24 years with lower level of
procrastination compared to previous studies conducted by
De Castella, et al (2013) involving high school students.
This is in line with the statement of Steel (2007) which
explains that as people age, procrastination will decrease.
Subjects in this study had low level of procrastination and
fear of failure. In a study conducted by Balkis and Erdinç
(2017), the result showed that male subjects had higher
levels of academic procrastination than women, despite
having equal amount of female and male research subjects.
Meanwhile, the subjects of this study were dominated by
female subjects at 37 participants (71.2%) and male subjects
at 15 participants (28.8%) resulting in unbalanced data. This
study was limited in acquiring more balanced research
subjects in terms of sex and researchers feel a lack in terms
of participant number in this study. At the time researchers
conducted data collecting, an extraordinary condition
occurred, which is the Covid-19 outbreak that might have
caused behavioral changes in individuals. Previous studies
were conducted under normal conditions. The researcher
suggests a further research related to the fear of failure and
students’ academic achievement variables using group
subjects with different age ranges than those used by the
researcher. Future studies can involve subjects with a
younger age range, such as high school students.
Researchers also suggest using other variables that can
measure the level of fear of failure or procrastination, such
as self-efficacy.
5. CONCLUSION
There is a relationship between fear of failure and student
academic achievement. However, procrastination does not
mediate the relationship between fear of failure and student
academic achievement. Other variables are predicted to
mediate the fear of failure and student academic
achievement.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The researcher would like to thank the
participants involved in this research.
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