Journal ArticleDOI
Procrastination as a Self-Handicap for Men and Women: A Task-Avoidance Strategy in a Laboratory Setting
Joseph R. Ferrari,Dianne M. Tice +1 more
TLDR
For example, the authors found that chronic procrastinators tend to spend more time on the fun, alternative tasks and less time preparing for the evaluation, while non-procrastinators did not practice less than non-professionals, suggesting that lack of practice is a behavioral self-handicap.About:
This article is published in Journal of Research in Personality.The article was published on 2000-03-01. It has received 251 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Procrastination & Task (project management).read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure.
TL;DR: Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, self-efficacy, and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Rethinking Procrastination: Positive Effects of "Active" Procrastination Behavior on Attitudes and Performance
TL;DR: The present results showed that although active procrastinators procrastinate to the same degree as passive procrastinator, they are more similar to nonprocrastinators than to passive Procrastinators in terms of purposive use of time, control of time), self-efficacy belief, coping styles, and outcomes including academic performance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Understanding Procrastination from a Self-Regulated Learning Perspective.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relation between self-regulated learning and academic procrastination and its relation to several key components of selfregulated learning using self-report surveys.
Journal ArticleDOI
A meta-analytically derived nomological network of procrastination
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis contains the correlations of 121 studies examining the relation between procrastination and personality variables, motives, affect, and performance, and the largest negative effect sizes were found in relation to conscientiousness and self-efficacy, while the largest positive relation was found with self-handicapping.
Journal ArticleDOI
Doing the Things We Do: A Grounded Theory of Academic Procrastination.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a grounded theory study of academic procrastination to explore adaptive and maladaptive aspects of procrastinations and to help guide future empirical research.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
At last, my research article on procrastination.
TL;DR: In this article, a general form (G) of a true-false procrastination scale was created, which was based on an earlier version of the scale containing parallel forms A and B.
Journal ArticleDOI
Control of Attributions about the Self Through Self-handicapping Strategies: The Appeal of Alcohol and the Role of Underachievement
Edward E. Jones,Steven Berglas +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the hypothesis that alcohol use and underachievement may serve as strategies to externalize the causation of poor performance and to internalize the causality of good performance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Longitudinal Study of Procrastination, Performance, Stress, and Health: The Costs and Benefits of Dawdling
Dianne M. Tice,Roy F. Baumeister +1 more
TL;DR: Procrastination appears to be a self-defeating behavior pattern marked by short-term benefits and long-term costs as discussed by the authors, which may explain why students tend to be more stressed and more ill than non-profrastinators.
Journal ArticleDOI
Drug choice as a self-handicapping strategy in response to noncontingent success
Steven Berglas,Edward E. Jones +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, college student subjects were instructed to choose between a drug that interfered with performance and a drug which enhanced performance, and the drug choice intervened between work on soluble or insoluble problems and a promised retest on similar problems.
Book
Procrastination and Task Avoidance: Theory, Research, and Treatment
TL;DR: The role of personality disorders and characterological tendencies in academic and everyday procrastination has been investigated in this paper, where Flett et al. described the role of Personality Disorders and Characterological Tendencies in Procrastination.
Related Papers (5)
The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure.
Academic Procrastination: Frequency and Cognitive-Behavioral Correlates
Longitudinal Study of Procrastination, Performance, Stress, and Health: The Costs and Benefits of Dawdling
Dianne M. Tice,Roy F. Baumeister +1 more