Volume 8, Issue 2, February – 2023 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology ISSN No:-2456-2165 IJISRT23FEB712 www.ijisrt.com 1147 Personality Correlates of Procrastination and Perfectionism among Adolescents *Payal Kanwar Chandel, **Kumari Manju Phogat, *** Aneetha Rifa *Professor, ** Postgraduate Student, ***Research Scholar Department of Psychology, Central University of Haryana Correspondence author: Kumari Manju Phogat Abstract :- Background: The time bounded life of modern era has forced people to execute work and tasks in a timely manner with stipulated deadlines for everything. In this environment of constant tension, competition and multitasking there may have this desire or need delay completion of work given for later. This tendency of delaying workuntil the last moments of the deadline is called 'Procrastination'. This subjective change in procrastination is ought to study through this research on the basis of the five-factor model of personality. This behaviour of striving for perfectionism is different among people and hence this study also focuses on perfectionism among different personality domains. Method: SAMPLE N = 158 Male = 67 Females =86 Research Design: The design used in the study is correlational research design to see if there is any relationship between the variables; procrastination, personality and perfectionism without controlling or manipulating any of them. Tools:  General Procrastination Scale (GPS)  NEO Five-Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992).  The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (1990) Result: The correlational findings of the study indicate that the variable procrastination has a significant (P<0.01) positive correlation with personality factors neuroticism and conscientiousness. Our study also suggests that there is a significant (P<0.01) negative correlation between procrastination and extroversion, which has no consistency with previous studies reviewed. According to this study, perfectionism has a significant (P<0.01) and positive relationship with conscientiousness. Another major finding of the study is that there is a significant (P<0.01) negative correlation between perfectionism and the agreeableness factor. The implication of the study: The study examines the investigation of personality correlates of procrastination and perfectionism among adolescents. The finding of the study may be helpful in teaching and school counselling areas to introduce different student development interventions relating to procrastination among adolescent students. Keywords:- Procrastination, adolescents, perfectionism, personality, school counselling, training. I. INTRODUCTION The time bounded life of modern era has forced people to execute work and tasks in a timely manner with stipulated deadlines for everything. In this environment of constant tension, competition and multitasking there may have this desire or need to postpone the completion of tasks for later. This tendency of delaying tasks until the last moments of the deadline is called 'Procrastination'. The act of procrastination is different among different people depending on many factors. This subjective change in procrastination is ought to study through this research on the basis of the five-factor model of personality. Also, people tend to procrastinate as they strive for getting a perfect result in the end by using the lagging time and pressure as a motivation to complete the task.Understanding clearly the correlation of each personality trait with procrastination will directly give us the chance to recognize if a person is prone to procrastination or not. It will help the teachers and school counsellors to foresee the behaviour of adolescents in accordance with their personality traits in completing the tasks effectively. This behaviour of striving for perfectionism is different among people and hence this study also focuses on perfectionism among different personality domains. According to Klassen, Krawchuk, and Rajani (2008, p. 916), “procrastination consists of the intentional delay of an intended course of action, in spite of an awareness of negative outcomes.” Steel (2007) defines the term as the tendency “to voluntarily delay an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay". Procrastination involves unnecessary and unwanted delay, be it decisional, implemental, or lack of timeliness (McCown et al., 1989; Mann et al., 1997). The term 'procrastinate' is derived from the Latin word procrastinus, in which the prefix pro means 'forward' and crastinus means 'of tomorrow'. The concept of procrastination indicates postponing or delaying action or an act of taking resolutions. Procrastination occurs when the person values doing something else other than current work. According to Steel procrastination is self-harm and in the words of Sirois (2017), it is essentially irrational.