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Procrastination as a Self-Handicap for Men and Women: A Task-Avoidance Strategy in a Laboratory Setting

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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.
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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).

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Control of Attributions about the Self Through Self-handicapping Strategies: The Appeal of Alcohol and the Role of Underachievement

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.
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Longitudinal Study of Procrastination, Performance, Stress, and Health: The Costs and Benefits of Dawdling

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.
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Drug choice as a self-handicapping strategy in response to noncontingent success

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.
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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.
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