Abstract This paper considered three studies designed to examine procrastinatory behavior.
In Study I, a general form (G) of a true-false procrastination scale was created. This form was
based on an earlier version of the scale containing parallel forms A and B. Procrastination ...

Abstract 1. Investigated the frequency of 342 college students' procrastination on academic
tasks and the reasons for procrastination behavior. A high percentage of Ss reported
problems with procrastination on several specific academic tasks. Self-reported ...

Abstract 1. Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure that is
not entirely understood. Hence, the relevant conceptual, theoretical, and empirical work is
reviewed, drawing upon correlational, experimental, and qualitative findings. A meta- ...

In this lecture I shall focus on situations involving repeated decisions with time inconsistent
behavior. Although each choice may be close to maximizing and therefore result in only
small losses, the cumulative effect of a series of repeated errors may be quite large. Thus, ...

Abstract Procrastination is all too familiar to most people. People delay writing up their
research (so we hear!), repeatedly declare they will start their diets tomorrow, or postpone
until next week doing odd jobs around the house. Yet people also sometimes attempt to ...

Abstract Despite the lack of a singular definition of the key term and, until recently, a relative
lack of interest displayed toward this topic by the scientific community, there have been
several forays into research regarding procrastination. This Chapter reviews empirical ...

Procrastination is variously described as harmful innocuous, or even beneficial. Two
longitudinal studies examined procrastination among students. Procrastinators reported
lower stress and less illness than nonprocrastinators early in the semester, but they ...

Recent models of procrastination due to self-control problems assume that a procrastinator
considers just one option and is unaware of her self-control problems. We develop a model
where a person chooses from a menu of options and is partially aware of her self-control ...

The construct of procrastination has been investigated in terms of task approach and
performance or through the perspective of personality and individual differences. Recent
articles have addressed the role of the three-factor theory of personality in procrastination. ...