Structural Equations Model in Negative Affection, Self- Forgiveness, and Procrastination

Procrastination is considered as a phenomenon of rational thought, to postpone essential tasks unnecessarily until specific a deadline or completed later. It refers to the behavioural tendency to action despite the external adverse outcomes and inevitable negative consequences of such a delay for start and/or completion of decisions or actions [29]. The effects of procrastination often include negative behavioural aspects such as gambling, over-spending, over-eating, sexual promiscuity; it could have resulted from selfregulation failure in the majority of people [1]. People who share procrastination behaviour tend to face at one point or another by ignoring unpleasant tasks. By avoiding unpleasant tasks with effort, self-kindness might increase towards oneself [2]. Indeed, to minimize the risk of making a mistake is a significant category of procrastinating people [3]. Procrastination is considered mostly a way of collecting thoughts to avoid failure in everyday life [4]. By establishing more motivational behaviours than avoidance, less avoidable behaviour is employed [2]. Besides to a positive self-image, which gives personal control perspective, self-deception straightens out cheats and reveal the cheaters [5]. In terms of precursors of procrastination, the evidence suggests that it is enough lucky to become a chronic habit [6]. Abstract: The current research was conducted to determine the mediating role of negative Affection toward selfforgiveness, and procrastination in male students of the University of Tabriz. Therefore, 361 male students between 18-22 were selected by a random cluster sampling method from three groups of Technical and engineering, basic science and human science faculties. The General Procrastination, Decisional Procrastination, Positive and Negative Affect, and Heartland Forgiveness inventories were used to gather the data. The theoretical model was tested within a structural equationmodelling framework to identify both direct and indirect effects. The results indicate an overall fit model. Although the direct effects of self-forgiveness on decisional and general procrastination behaviours were not significant, thus, an indirect impact of self-forgiveness on the decisional and general procrastination behaviours were fully mediated by negative affection. Also, the effect of self-forgiveness on negative affect and academic procrastination, the training was essential for students.