article history: received date: 25 september, 2016 review date: 12 october 2016 accepted date:23 november 2016 printed on line: 5 january purpose the aim of the present study was to study the impact of meta cognitive skills training on the reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in male students. material & method: statistical population in this study consisted of all high school...

Abstract Introduction: Procrastination is a behavioral habit, described as putting off the tasks. The behavioral habit in nursing profession because of its nature is natural and tangible. On the other hand, procrastination in nursing profession had irreversible negative results and thus doing duties without procrastination is vital. Thus, with regard to the negative results of procrastin...

This paper has a dual purpose. First, I present a new modeling of partial naivete and apply this to procrastination. The decision maker is partially naive by perceiving that his current preferences may persist in the future. The behavioral implications of such partial naivete differ from those of related literature. Second, I suggest a general principle for welfare analysis in multi-self settin...

introduction: the aims this ready project has done to determine relationship between mother’s personality traits with perfectionism and academic procrastination in first grade of high school girl students. group of studying in this search involve all girl student who studied in first grade of high school in robatkarim city. methods: this sample chose base on science contained 200 person by simp...

Abstract. Procrastination is the irrational delay of an intended task and common among students. A can only be defined as procrastination when it voluntary, action was but not implemented, accompanied by subjective discomfort. Established scales cover mainly behavioral aspects have neglected emotional aspect. This inaccuracy concerning construct validity might entail misconceptions procrastinat...

We examined college students' procrastination when studying for weekly in-class quizzes. Two schedules of online practice quiz delivery were compared using a multiple baseline design. When online study material was made available noncontingently, students usually procrastinated. When access to additional study material was contingent on completing previous study material, studying was more even...

Productive procrastination replaces one adaptive behavior with another adaptive-albeit less important-behavior (e.g., organizing notes instead of studying for an exam). We identified adaptive and maladaptive procrastination styles associated with academic and alcohol outcomes in 1106 college undergraduates. Cluster analysis identified five academic procrastination styles-non-procrastinators, ac...

This study reports on the effect of a newly developed 4-week strengths-based training approach to overcome academic procrastination, given to first-year elementary teacher education students (N = 54). The training was based on a strengths-based approach, in which elements of the cognitive behavioral approach were also used. The purpose of the training was to promote awareness of the personal st...

Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and functioning of labor market policies. We review key implications of behavioral economics related to procrasti...