An examination on active procrastination in academic settings (1)

Values and Academic Procrastination 1 Running head: Values and Academic Procrastination Individual Values, Learning Routines, and Academic Procrastination

Productive procrastination: academic procrastination style predicts academic and alcohol outcomes.

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...

Decisional Procrastination in Academic Settings: The Role of Metacognitions and Learning Strategies

Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...

Applying Explanatory Style to Academic Procrastination

To better understand procrastination, researchers have sought to identify cognitive personality factors associated with it. The study reported here attempts to extend previous research by exploring the application of explanatory style to academic procrastination. Findings of the study are discussed from the perspective of employers of this new generation.

Scientific-academic narcissism a new phenomenon in academic settings

Narcissism is a type of personality disorder in which a person considers himself great and important and exaggeratedly feels capable and worthy. One of the places in which this disorder can occur is at the university level. The symptoms of this type of disorder can be seen in some faculty members and it seems that these people also have some kind of scientific-academic narcissism disorder. In t...