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...

In the years I've been writing for this magazine, written about being unable to work due depression or exhaustion both. To address topic, I wrote a column called “Do One Thing” WIHE 28.2 (January 2019). it gave advice that, when your to-do list is swallowing you whole, everything seems too hard, day terrible, if can do just one thing, will feel better because be thing less in hole. And then may...

BACKGROUND Procrastination, to voluntarily delay an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse-off for the delay, is a persistent behavior pattern that can cause major psychological suffering. Approximately half of the student population and 15%-20% of the adult population are presumed having substantial difficulties due to chronic and recurrent procrastination in their everyday li...

Decisional procrastination has been one of the main phenomena analysed in university students, together with self-efficacy, during COVID-19 pandemic. We examined roles academic self-efficacy and intolerance uncertainty on decisional 318 Italian students. Furthermore, mediating role relationships between was explored. The Academic Self-Efficacy Scale, Procrastination Intolerance Uncertainty Scal...

<p>The purpose of the research is to identify targets, procedures and successful implementation self-management techniques overcome academic procrastination behaviour students. The method used a literature study. primary data 21 national international articles. article selection criteria are: meet both variables, carried out within last ten years. Data collection use documentation as well...

Procrastination is extremely prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure, or the tendency to postpone an activity under one’s control to the last possible minute, or even not to perform it at all, that is not entirely understood. Procrastination is the deferment of actions or tasks to a later time, or even to infinity. It is the avoidance, or deferment, without good reason, of an i...

Procrastination is a common problem, but defining and measuring it has been subject to some debate. This paper summarizes results from students and employees (N = 2893) in Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, and Sweden using the Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) and the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS; Steel, 2010), both assumed to measure unidimensional and closely related constructs...

This study aims to determine the relationship between self-control and peer social support with academic procrastination independently simultaneously. The research respondents were 56 final year students, selected using a saturated sampling technique. scales in this are self-control, scale. results showed significant variables of procrastination. Other show that have negative correlation studen...

Scales attempting to measure procrastination focus on different facets of the phenomenon, yet they share a common understanding of procrastination as an unnecessary, unwanted, and disadvantageous delay. The present paper examines in a global sample (N = 4,169) five different procrastination scales - Decisional Procrastination Scale (DPS), Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS), Pure Procrastina...