Academic procrastination: The pattern and correlates of behavioural postponement

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1519-1530

  Howell, Andrew J ^a   Watson, David C ^a   Powell, Russell A ^a   Buro, Karen ^a  

^a MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Procrastination; Self regulation; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646157483     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.023     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Anderson V., and Merrett F. The use of correspondence training in improving the in-class behaviour of very troublesome secondary school children. Educational Psychology 17 (1997) 313-328
2. Ariely D., and Wertenbroch K. Procrastination, deadlines, and performance: self-control by precommitment. Psychological Science 13 (2002) 219-224
3. Blunt A., and Pychyl T.A. Project systems of procrastinators: a personal project-analytic and action control perspective. Personality and Individual Differences 38 (2005) 1771-1780
4. Carden R., Bryant C., and Moss R. Locus of control, test anxiety, academic procrastination, and achievement among college students. Psychological Reports 95 (2004) 581-582
5. Dewitte S., and Lens W. Exploring volitional problems in academic procrastinators. International Journal of Educational Research 33 (2000) 733-750
6. Dewitte S., and Lens W. Procrastinators lack a broad action perspective. European Journal of Personality 14 (2000) 121-140
7. Dewitte S., and Schouwenburg H.C. Procrastination, temptations, and incentives: the struggle between the present and the future in procrastinators and the punctual. European Journal of Personality 16 (2002) 469-489
8. Ferrari J.R. Reliability of academic and dispositional measures of procrastination. Psychological Reports 64 (1989) 1057-1058
9. Ferrari J.R. Procrastination as self-regulation failure of performance: effects of cognitive load, self-awareness, and time limits on Working Best Under Pressure. European Journal of Personality 15 (2001) 391-406
10. Ferrari J.R., and Emmons R.A. Methods of procrastination and their relation to self-control or self-reinforcement. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 10 (1995) 135-142
11. Ferrari J.R., Parker J.T., and Ware C.B. Academic procrastination: personality correlates with Myers-Briggs Types, self-efficacy, and academic locus of control. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 7 (1992) 495-502
12. Gollwitzer P.M., Fujita K., and Oettingen G. Planning and the implementation of goals. In: Baumeister R.F., and Vohs K.D. (Eds). Handbook of self-regulation (2004), Guilford Press, New York 211-228
13. Lay C.H. At last my research article on procrastination. Journal of Research in Personality 20 (1986) 474-495
14. Milgram N.A., Sroloff B., and Rosenbaum M. The procrastination of everyday life. Journal of Research in Personality 22 (1988) 197-212
15. Moon S.M., and Illingworth A.J. Exploring the dynamic nature of procrastination: a latent growth curve analysis of academic procrastination. Personality and Individual Differences 38 (2005) 297-309
16. Oettingen G., Honig G., and Gollwitzer P.M. Effective self-regulation of goal attainment. International Journal of Educational Research 33 (2000) 705-732
17. Perry R.P., Hladkyj S., Pekrun R.H., and Pelletier S.T. Academic control and action control in the achievement of college students: a longitudinal field study. Journal of Educational Psychology 93 (2001) 776-789
18. Risley T.R. The social context of self-control. In: Stuart R.B. (Ed). Behavioral self-management: Strategies, techniques and outcomes (1977), Bunner/Mazel, New York 71-81
19. Risley T.R., and Hart B. Developing correspondence between the non-verbal and verbal behavior of preschool children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1 (1968) 267-281
20. Schouwenburg H.C., and Groenewoud J.T. Study motivation under social temptation: effects of trait procrastination. Personality and Individual Differences 30 (2001) 229-240
21. Senecal C., Koestner R., and Vallerand R.J. Self-regulation and academic procrastination. Journal of Social Psychology 135 (1995) 607-619
22. Senecal C., Lavoie K., and Koestner R. Trait and situational factors in procrastination: an interactional model. Journal of Social Behaviour and Personality 12 (1997) 889-903
23. Solomon L.J., and Rothblum E.D. Academic procrastination: frequency and cognitive-behavioural correlates. Journal of Counseling Psychology 31 (1984) 504-510
24. Steel P., Brothen T., and Wambach C. Procrastination and personality, performance, and mood. Personality and Individual Differences 30 (2001) 95-106
25. Tice D.M., and Baumeister R. Longitudinal study of procrastination, performance, stress, and health: the costs and benefits of dawdling. Psychological Science 8 (1997) 454-458
26. Tuckman B.W. The development and concurrent validity of the Procrastination Scale. Educational and Psychological Measurement 5 (1991) 473-480
27. van Eerde W. Procrastination: self-regulation in initiating aversive goals. Applied Psychology: An International Review 49 (2000) 372-389
28. van Eerde W. A meta-analytically derived nomological network of procrastination. Personality and Individual Differences 35 (2003) 1401-1418
29. Watson D.C. Academic procrastination: a five-factor model facet level analysis. Personality and Individual Differences 30 (2001) 149-158
30. Wolters C.A. Understanding procrastination from a self-regulated learning perspective. Journal of Educational Psychology 95 (2003) 179-187