Evaluation of structural equation model explaining academic procrastination based on perception of learning environment and social responsibility with the mediating role of academic anxiety

Background: Academic procrastination as an educational problem affects all aspects of the educational system. students with procrastination experience problems in other psychoanalytical aspects. Although the literature of the current research has addressed academic procrastination, influential variables such as academic anxiety and social responsibility have been neglected. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the structural equation model of explaining academic procrastination based on the perception of the learning environment and social responsibility with the mediating role of academic anxiety. Method: The method of the present research was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of method, structural equation modeling (path analysis). The statistical population of the research included all the students of Babol Noshirvani University of Technology in the academic year of 2021-2022, Among them, 350 people were selected by random cluster sampling, and they completed the questionnaires of academic procrastination (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984), academic achievement anxiety (Alpert & Haber, 1960), perception of the learning environment (Roff et al., 2001) and responsibility (Kordlow, 2014). Data analysis was done using Pearson correlation methods, structural equation modeling and with the help of SPSS-19 and AMOS-20 software. Results: The results showed that the variables of perception of the learning environment (-0.35 and -0.21), and responsibility (0.22 and -0.13) had direct and significant effects on academic procrastination and academic anxiety, respectively (P