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.

BACKGROUND Procrastination is a prevalent and problematic phenomenon that has mostly been studied in the domain of academic behavior. The current study shows that procrastination may also lead to harmful outcomes in the area of health behavior, introducing bedtime procrastination as an important factor related to getting insufficient sleep and consequently affecting individual well-being. Bedti...

Objective: This research was conducted to study the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction Training on symptoms of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and academic procrastination of boy teenagers with ADHD. Methods: The design of the study is that quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test and follow-up with control group. Statistical population composes of all boy teen...

The gender gap in STEM fields has prompted a great deal of discussion, but what factors underlie performance deficits remain poorly understood. We show that female students underperformed on exams compared to their male counterparts across ten large introductory biology course sections in fall 2016 (N > 1500 students). Females also reported higher levels of test anxiety and course-relevant scie...

background: test anxiety is one of the major causes of students’ academic failure.  this problem would be more salient for pre-university students as they are highly engaged with university entrance exam. psychotherapy can be supposed as a desired method of reducing test anxiety for students and their parents. the purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of cognitive and relaxatio...