First, Bandura (1986) suggested self-efficacy affects procrastination. Self-efficacy relates
to “beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to
manage prospective situations”(Bandura, 1986, p.2). To put it differently, self-efficacy
indicates how confident he or she is to carry out a task and attain a goal. Bandura (1986)
stated that self-efficacy belief manipulates one’s behavior more than profession,
knowledge and previous accomplishment. As a female who is going to be an international
student in U.S., I believe lacking of academic self-efficacy is one of the problems which
may lead to procrastination behavior. This is because I may face different kinds of
challenges and deal with various situations in future. Hence, academic self-efficacy is vital
for me to prevent myself from procrastinating. Yan & Gaier (1994) stated Asian students
produce higher academic grades but they possess lower self-efficacy. I admit, as an Asian
student, that we are able to strive for good academic grades, but we have low self-efficacy.
As a result, we easily give up in defeat. It is a weakness for us to overcome failure with
confidence. Lacking of confidence, we will fear of dealing with the task and procrastinate
to avoid the failure again. Furthermore, Klassen, Krawchuk, & Rajani (2007) and Seo
(2008) searched out a significant negative correlation between academic self-efficacy and
academic procrastination in a sample of Canadian university students and native Korean
college students.
Second, acculturation is one of the elements which delivers remarkable correlation with
academic procrastination. Berry (2005, p. 698) defined acculturation as “the dual process
