Romiro G. Bautista^1,, Peter Paul S. Cagatao^{1, 2}

Lackadaisical attitude, the lack of spirit and liveliness, is considered as one of the integral factors contributing to the success of researchers in their task of crafting manuscripts and articles relative to their academic works. This study is designed to determine the level of lackadaisical attitude of graduate students in conducting research in the locale of the study. Employing mixed-method design particularly the Sequential Explanatory Design, the level of lackadaisical attitude among the respondents and the factors attributed to this utility from the informants are known. Mostly, the respondents hold high lackadaisical attitude on personal interest, research anxiety, and research difficulties, while very highly lackadaisical on conducting research and research use. Work affiliation is not found to be a significant factor on the occurrence of the lackadaisical attitude among the respondents while age is found to be a significant factor along personal interests and research difficulties. Likewise, the graduate students in the locale of the study hold varying lackadaisical attitude in conducting researches with age as an intervening factor. Moreover, the informants mostly find difficulty in developing topics and writing the research in general. These known difficulties form part in their confidence amidst their expected concordances in the Graduate School. Albeit developing poor spirit, the informants showed motivation to be better with their promotion and self-actualization. Thus, research students are in a constant stride of besting their abilities in engaging and performing a behavior in an academic parlance.

graduate education, lackadaisical attitude, research writing