An Individual Positive Emotion Exercise: Its Influence on Self-Efficacy and Procrastination of Nursing Students

Two of indicators to be succeed in learning are high self-efficacy and low procrastination behavior. In order to create these conditions, teachers have to contribute actively not only by giving order relating to the teaching materials, but also to conduct certain strategy in order to help their students for improving their psychological ability which will support accomplishment academic goal eventually. One of the skills advantages learning process is an emotion regulation. In achieving emotion regulation, three aspects have to be considered: awareness, execution, and evaluation. Through emotional positive state, students are ready to engage with their tasks. Improving emotion can be implemented through individual or group exercise. The aim of this study measured the difference of self-efficacy and procrastination between experiment group and control group. The experiment group was given individual emotion training and the control group experienced regular class without specific treatment. This research used an experimental method with nonrandomized two groups posttest only design. A group of 91 students from a nursing school was involved in this research. Two adaptation scales, namely Students' self-efficacy and procrastination were used for measurement. The result revealed only one hypothesis was accepted, procrastination difference level between two groups. However, the effect size showed a small contribution from emotion regulation on it. It indicated that individual emotion exercise for five weeks decreasing procrastination. For the more effective strategy, this exercise should be accompanied by other treatments such as short training and specific emotion target.