Relationship among personality traits, procrastination and coping strategies

The current study explored the relationship among personality traits, procrastination and coping strategies in 200 students of Bahauddin Zakariya University, Sahiwal Campus. The convenience sampling technique was used. Participants completed the Big Five Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992) , Cope Inventory by carver (1989) and Procrastination scale by Lay (1986). Descriptive statistics, correlation, independent sample t-test were applied to analyze the data. The results showed significant Negative correlation between personality traits such as conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness procrastination and positive correlation among personality traits such as extraversion, neuroticism and procrastination. Result established positive correlation between procrastination and avoidant coping strategies and negative correlation between procrastination and problem focused coping strategies. Extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness are positively correlated with problem focused coping strategies. Neuroticism is negatively connected with problem focused coping and positively with avoidance coping strategies Finding indicated significant differences in personality traits and coping strategies relation to gender.