procrastination is a widespread phenomenon that has been associated with the most of cognitive, emotional, and motivational factors, about which a clear and integrated picture is still lacking, though. the aim of this study was to use primary established psychological procrastination-related factors in the base of ellis cognitive emotional behavioral approach to examine whether reliable subgrou...

Procrastination is defined as the tendency to delay activities that have to be completed before a deadline. It is often part of psychotherapies for adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, procrastination is officially not acknowledged as an ADHD-related symptom. Therefore, little is known about the role of procrastination in ADHD. We investigated the relation betwe...

This study investigated the frequency of college students' procrastination on academic tasks and the reasons for procrastination behavior. A high percentage of students reported problems with procrastination on several specific academic tasks. Self-reported procrastination was positively correlated with the number of self-paced quizzes students took late in the semester and with participation i...

The aim of the present study is to examine a number of decisional procrastination correlates. A sample of 258 subjects attending secondary school were administered the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire, Cognitive Failures Questionnaire, Self-Esteem Scale, Big Five Questionnaire and Five Factors Adjective Short Test. The data were subjected to correlation and multiple regression. Decisiona...

ôbjective: âpproximately 66-80%of graduate students experience statistics anxiety and some researchers propose that many students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their academic curriculums. âs such, it is likely that statistics anxiety is, in part, responsible for many students delaying enrollment in these courses for as long as possible. this paper proposes ...

objective: the aim of the current study is to investigate the relationship between metacognition and obsessive beliefs, and procrastination. methods: 285 students of tabriz and mohaghegh ardabili universities, iran, were selected by random sampling, and completed the metacognition (mcq-30) questionnaire, obsessive beliefs questionnaire (obq-44), and general procrastination scale. the research m...

a r t i c l e i n f o Procrastination is a self-defeating behavior that occurs when present self chooses to delay a task action in favor of future self taking on this task later. Given this dynamic between present and future self with procrastination, we hypothesized that higher levels of perceived self-continuity would be related to lower levels of self-reported procrastination , because highe...

Procrastination is a pervasive self-regulatory failure affecting approximately one-fifth of the adult population and half of the student population. It is defined as one’s voluntarily delay of an intended course of action despite being worse off as a result of that delay. Procrastination has a negative impact on performance and is associated with poorer mental health. Stress, worry, and feeling...