Background: This daily diary study investigates the phenomenon of bedtime procrastination. Bedtime procrastination is defined as going to bed later than intended, without having external reasons for doing so. We highlight the role chronotype (interindividual differences in biological preferences for sleep-wake-times) plays for bedtime procrastination. Moreover, we challenge the view that bedtim...

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...

Procrastination became increasingly prevalent among students in recent years. However, little research was found that directly compares academic procrastination across different academic grade levels. The present study used a self-regulated learning perspective to compare procrastination types and associated motivation between undergraduate and graduate students. Sixty-six undergraduate a...

Introduction Medical students have to do multiple tasks as part of their extensive curriculum in order achieve the proficiencies expected them. Being overwhelmed creates a time management problem, substance use and tendency procrastinate. Therefore, accumulated may generate distress that could result poor academic performance. Objectives The aim this study was investigate prevalence factors rel...

In this paper, the authors attempted to present the comprehensive literature review on the newest therapeutic interventions such as cognitive remediation therapy (CRT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), social cognition and interaction training (SCIT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) which appeared promising whilst their implementing among schizophrenic patients, patients ...

Leakage energy consumption is an increasing concern in current and future CMOS technology generations. Procrastination scheduling, where task execution can be delayed to maximize the duration of idle intervals, has been proposed to minimize leakage energy drain. We address dynamic slack reclamation techniques under procrastination scheduling to minimize the static and dynamic energy consumption...

The authors examined how time orientation and morningness–eveningness relate to 2 forms of procrastination: indecision and avoidant forms. Participants were 509 adults (M age = 49.78 years, SD = 6.14) who completed measures of time orientation, morningness–eveningness, decisional procrastination (i.e., indecision), and avoidant procrastination. Results showed that morningness was negatively rel...

This article describes the development of a questionnaire on metacognitive beliefs about procrastination. In Study 1 we performed a principal axis factor analysis that suggested a twofactor solution for the data obtained from the preliminary questionnaire. The factors identified were named positive and negative metacognitive beliefs about procrastination. The factor analysis reduced the questio...

conclusions: it can be concluded that cognitive-behavioral and spiritual training was effective for the improvement of mental health of hiv positive drug addicts. results: the result of the present research showed that cognitive-behavioral trainings with an emphasis on spirituality were effective for improving quality of life, regarding general aspects of mental and physical health, sub-scales ...