Is student procrastination related to controlling teacher behaviour? Valenzuela, Rafael; Codina, Nuria; Pestana, Jose Vicente; and González-Conde, Joan Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain Abstract Even motivated students procrastinate, because procrastination is triggered by a volitional (rather than by a motivational) problem. However, many factors, such as learning context, teacher interpersonal style, and also type of motivation may influence the occurrence of procrastination. The aim of the present study was to assess the relations between first-year university students’ procrastination and controlling teacher behaviour. Four types of controlling teacher behaviour and three distinct measures of procrastination were evaluated and their correlations assessed. Findings revealed small but significant associations between (a) conditional use of rewards and decisional procrastination, and between (b) excessive personal control and task-avoiding procrastination. Results suggest that controlling teacher behaviour can negatively influence students’ learning experiences. By using conditional rewards too often, teachers may deffer their students’ autonomous decision processes to engage in academic learning. And teachers trying to exercise excessive personal control may favour their students’ perceptions of external regulation, limiting their possibilities of developing intrinsic motivation and autonomous self-regulated learning. Both resulting conditions could make it more likely for students to procrastinate academic learning, by engaging in alternative activities. Keywords: Student procrastination; decisional procrastination; controlling teacher behaviour; conditional use of reward. 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd’17 Universitat Polit` ecnica de Val` encia, Val` encia, 2017 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/HEAd17.2017.5530 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Editorial Universitat Polit` ecnica de Val` encia 1130 1130