ProkRASt

03/2017 – 09/2021

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Prof. Dr. Joachim Wirth, Daniel O. Thies und Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Detlev Leutner (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

Subproject Bielefeld/Münster
Prof. Dr. Carola Grunschel (Verbundleitung; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Fries
Theresa Schnettler
Anne Scheunemann

Subproject Augsburg
Prof. Dr. Markus Dresel
Lisa Bäulke

The project consisted of three subprojects. It investigated procrastination as a risk factor for student dropout from a motivational and action-regulatory perspective. The overarching goal was to investigate personal and contextual conditions and their interactions as causes of procrastination and student dropout. This process-oriented view of procrastination and the formation of student dropout intentions had not been taken sufficiently until then.

The three subprojects set different research priorities when investigating the conditioning factors of procrastination and student dropout. Bochum concentrated on strategies for action-regulation (e.g., time management). Bielefeld examined study motivation. Augsburg focused on the competence to motivation-regulation and contextual factors.

Eight studies were conducted as part of the project. The research methods used were questionnaires, tests, experience sampling and end-of-day diaries. The inclusion of students of mathematics, law, and education allowed for a comparison of different majors with different student dropout rates. The results of the first seven subproject-specific studies were combined in a longitudinal study across all subprojects.

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this longitudinal study was expanded in a supplementary project (BMBF Förderschwerpunkt "Wissenschafts- und Hochschulforschung") with additional measurement points during the pademic. This is because the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by numerous changes in everyday and student life. As never before, students' self-regulation was particularly challenged. The supplementary project aimed to compare "regular" development trajectories of aspects of motivation and action regulation as well as procrastination and variables of academic success and student dropout with development trajectories under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic within the same sample and to conduct corresponding cause and effect analyses. In addition, the mental health of students during the COVID-19 pandemic was examined.

ProkRAST - wihoforschung

Bäulke, L., Eckerlein, N., & Dresel, M. (2018). Interrelations between motivational regulation, procrastination and college dropout intentions. Unterrichtswissenschaft, 46(4), 461—479. DOI

Gadosey, C. K., Grunschel, C., Kegel, L. S., Schnettler, T., Turhan, D., Scheunemann, A., ... & Wirth, J. (2022). Study Satisfaction among University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Development and Personal-Contextual Predictors. Frontiers in Psychology, 5062.

Grunschel, C., Dresel, M., Fries, S., Leutner, D., Wirth, J., Bäulke, L., Scheunemann, A., Schnettler, T. & Thies, D.O. (2021). Prokrastination als Risikofaktor für den Abbruch des Studiums: eine motivations- und handlungsregulatorische Perspektive. In M. Neugebauer, H.-D. Daniel, & A. Wolter (Hrsg.), Studienerfolg und Studienabbruch. Springer VS.

Schnettler, T., Bobe, J., Scheunemann, A., Fries, S. & Grunschel, C. (2020). Is it still worth it? Applying expectancy-value theory to investigate the intraindividual motivational process of forming intentions to drop out from university. Motivation and Emotion, 44(4), 491—507. DOI