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<p>This study investigates the impact of stress, anxiety, and amotivation on procrastination and academic dishonesty among undergraduate business students. It further explores how amotivation and procrastination mediate the relationships between negative emotions—specifically stress and anxiety—and academic dishonesty. Adopting a cross-sectional survey design, data were collected from 179 undergraduate students enrolled in private universities in Malaysia using a snowball sampling method. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results indicate that stress and anxiety significantly predict both amotivation and procrastination. Procrastination, in turn, has a notable effect on academic dishonesty. Amotivation fully mediates the relationship between stress, anxiety, and academic dishonesty, and partially mediates the relationship between stress, anxiety, and procrastination. This study uniquely integrates emotion regulation theory and temporal motivation theory to examine the roles of stress, anxiety, and amotivation as antecedents of procrastination, and ultimately academic dishonesty—an area that has received limited attention in prior research. The identified chain of relationship—spanning stress, anxiety, amotivation, procrastination, and academic dishonesty—offers novel insights into the dynamics of academic misconduct. By emphasizing the mediating roles of amotivation and procrastination, this study provides practical recommendations for mitigating academic dishonesty and promoting academic integrity among students.</p>

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Procrastination Trap: the Hidden Link between Stress, Anxiety, Amotivation and Academic Dishonesty

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年2月3日

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  • Taslima Jannat,
  • Mohammad Nurul Hassan Reza,
  • Mohammad Shamshul Arefin,
  • Md. Aftab Uddin,
  • Eugene Pek Chuen Khee,
  • Niaz Pervez

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This study investigates the impact of stress, anxiety, and amotivation on procrastination and academic dishonesty among undergraduate business students. It further explores how amotivation and procrastination mediate the relationships between negative emotions—specifically stress and anxiety—and academic dishonesty. Adopting a cross-sectional survey design, data were collected from 179 undergraduate students enrolled in private universities in Malaysia using a snowball sampling method. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results indicate that stress and anxiety significantly predict both amotivation and procrastination. Procrastination, in turn, has a notable effect on academic dishonesty. Amotivation fully mediates the relationship between stress, anxiety, and academic dishonesty, and partially mediates the relationship between stress, anxiety, and procrastination. This study uniquely integrates emotion regulation theory and temporal motivation theory to examine the roles of stress, anxiety, and amotivation as antecedents of procrastination, and ultimately academic dishonesty—an area that has received limited attention in prior research. The identified chain of relationship—spanning stress, anxiety, amotivation, procrastination, and academic dishonesty—offers novel insights into the dynamics of academic misconduct. By emphasizing the mediating roles of amotivation and procrastination, this study provides practical recommendations for mitigating academic dishonesty and promoting academic integrity among students.