Al-Hikmah University Journal

This study investigates the effects of circadian typology and emotional intelligence on academic procrastination among counselling students. Using the descriptive survey design, 200 Counselling students were randomly selected for this study from students in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo West, Ondo State, Nigeria. Four standardized instruments were used to collect data from the selected participants. Three research hypotheses were tested in this study at 0.05 level of significance. Data were analyzed with the Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression statistics. The result indicated that there were significant correlations among circadian typology, emotional intelligence and academic procrastination. Circadian typology and emotional intelligence accounted for 38.7% of the variation academic procrastination. The two independent variables contributed significantly to academic procrastination, with emotional intelligence being the most potent. Based on these findings recommendations and suggestions were made.