Procrastination And Its Effects On Understanding Procrastination

Attention Getter: A famous author by the name of Wayne Dyer once said, “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is incredibly heavy.”(1) In todays society it seems as if procrastination has become a normal and acceptable thing to do. It is often joked about amongst schoolmates and co-workers around the world. Nothing seems to get done until it absolutely needs to get done, then everyone runs around getting things done quickly and often times inaccurately. The trouble with this mentality however is that some things will never get done because something will come up tomorrow or the next day and what you are putting off now gets pushed even further back. Today I will persuade you to stop this habit from continuing. I will be explaining the problems we face when dealing with procrastination as well as how to deal with it and actions you can take to prevent it in the future.

There is a certain irony with procrastination, things we put off doing accumulate to the point of in manageability and feelings of anxiety increase which, is why we procrastinate anyway.

Transition: After learning about the science behind procrastination, I want to talk about why we procrastinate.

Procrastination is ignoring your responsibilities and avoiding them for no good reason. Experiencing procrastination can have a positive or negative reaction according to the amount of the behavior. The person that is procrastinating must first realize that they have a problem in order to find ways to overcome procrastination because they are putting their health, family and job at risk. Twenty percent of people realize they are procrastinators which in the end becomes a lifestyle. There are various reasons why people procrastinate.

The research article titled “Procrastination, Deadlines and Performance: Self-Control by Precomittment,” authored by psychologists Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch, aimed to figure out the reasoning behind procrastination. A study was conducted to answer three questions all posed from the central thesis of procrastination. The first question the studies sought to answer was whether people are willing to impose deadlines, with substantial consequences if they are not met, on themselves. The second question whether these self-imposed deadlines were actually helpful in improving overall performance. Lastly, the third question aimed to determine if the deadlines people imposed on themselves, were done so to achieve their best results. It was

Another factor that causes procrastination is fear. Fear is a very powerful emotion. Whenever someone is faced with a difficult task, they can become overran by the fear of not being able to complete it. People who succumb to this are setting themselves up for failure. Whenever someone feels as if they are going to fail, they tend to postpone the task for as long as possible. This means that they often try to avoid the task all together until completion is absolutely necessary. In doing so, the number of tasks that need to be done increases. However, the time required to complete them does not.

Procrastination is a common tendency that we all give in to and all of us have at least a little experience with.

Procrastination may negatively impact professional advancement and general well-being, yet to our knowledge, the relationship with sleep quality has not been investigated. Poor sleep impacts physical and emotional health, underscoring the importance of addressing this potential outcome. It was hypothesized that procrastination will be associated with subjective sleep difficulties, an association mediated by ruminative cognitions. 598 respondents (154 men: Mage = 25.6 ± 3.8; 444 women Mage = 24.8 ± 3.3) completed online questionnaires regarding procrastination, sleep disturbances, rumination, emotional state, and chronotype. A structural equation model approach was used for model testing. Results demonstrated that procrastination positively correlated with sleep disturbance, a link moderated by chronotype, such that self-identified Morning Types reported lower procrastination, fewer sleep disturbances, and the two measures did not correlate. Among Intermediate and Evening Types the relationship between procrastination and sleep was mediated by rumination and negative mood. These findings suggest that addressing the impact on sleep should be one of the targets of interventions for treating procrastination.

Number one procrastination afflict some more than others, Number two procrastination feels good until it doesn’t  putting way our responsibility  for a relax moment and when the deadline is near to come the feeling of panic utter exhaustion all these feeling come would a procrastinator learn NO matter of fact that feeling a procrastinator gets is the feeling a procrastinator enjoy and that makes the procrastinator to procrastinate more and more time, Number three the brain’s  decision- making process is constant tug-of-war it a battle only if you give in to it. One part of the brain is fighting to get busy and get the work done and the other part wants to kick back and relax some leisure time at the wrong moment, Number four procrastination is the breakdown of self-control the lack of self-control the procrastinator tend to lose sight of what is important for some short-term fun, Number five beat back the forces  of procrastinating one way to do that is time

In the first study the basic relation hypothesized between procrastination and the two regulatory modes of locomotion and assessment was examined controlling for the Big Five personality traits. The participants were 221 undergraduates at the University of Rome La Sapienza which included 45 men and 176 women who participated in the study and had the average age was 21.05 years. The results of the first study was like how they hypothesized. Study 2 did not have a method so it was designed as a conceptual replication of Study 1 using a different and behavioral measure of procrastination. They used a two-wave longitudinal design assessing intentions to commit an action in the first phase and their realization in the second phase. There were 102 undergraduate participants at the University of Rome La Sapienza enrolled in the course of social psychology; 11 of them were men and 91 were women. Moving on to study 3 they hypothesized that the extent to which goal attainment would be interrupted or postponed that reflected procrastination would end up being related with individual differences in participants' locomotion. Study 3 had participants which had 42 men and 57 women. The results were as hypothesized, procrastination, in the first step, was significantly and positively related to assessment and it was negatively related to locomotion as said before. These differential effects remained significant in

In day to day life, living in our world we are bound to run into stress. Stress occurs when the demands of a challenging, threatening or harmful event are perceived as exceeding the internal and external resources of the individual to deal with a challenge. Stress can occur in to types, acute and chronic and acts as a driving force in many situations. The learned and cognitive component of stress, as detailed in our class, explain from two different perspectives why we experience stress. For most people where stress is occurring, procrastination is bound to follow. Procrastination is the voluntary avoidance of sources of stress that has in many arenas been agreed upon as linked to poor physical and psychological well-being. In the article Less Adaptive or More Maladaptive? A Meta-analytic investigation of Procrastination and Coping by F.M

Do the results in the Tactics category of the 16 Personalities test, Judging versus Prospecting, correspond with the work ethic of sophomores at Randolph Early College High School? If a random selection of sophomores at Randolph Early College High School are given six days to complete an assignment, then the students who are classified as a “J” by the 16 Personalities test will complete the assignment within the first three days and those classified as a “P” will complete their project after the initial three days. One of the most common generalizations used to compare the sixteen variants of personality type acronyms is that those with a “P” are more likely to procrastinate than someone with a “J.” That is based off of the fact that those who receive a high percentage in Judging (J) tendencies are more likely to maintain structure in their lives and value acting according to a plan. Those who have a higher percentage in Prospecting (P) tendencies are more often value flexibility over structure, are prone to be more spontaneous, and prefer to keep their options open rather than operating according to a set plan (Tactics: Judging vs. Prospecting). The purpose of this experiment was to test that notion as it applies to work ethic.

(Piers Steel, Thomas Brothen, Catherine Wambach 2001) study looks at relationship between procrastination, personality, performance and mood in 152 undergraduates. The study relied on self-evaluations from the participants. The participants first had to complete a

In the discipline of personality psychology, it is crucial for researchers to conduct studies using universal terms and scales, so that they may effectively compare results and further their line of research. However, when it concerns personality traits, such a comprehensive catalogue has not always been available – in fact, it has taken until up until the late 20th century to develop a list of essential personality traits and create scales that measure these dimensions reliably (John, Naumann, & Soto, 2008). The current set of these widely used traits is called the “Big Five” personality traits, and encompasses five broad dimensions - Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. Of the five, this paper will focus on Conscientiousness, a trait that describes individuals with impulse control who are highly organized, thorough, planful, efficient, responsible, reliable, and dependable, to name just a handful of characteristics associated with the trait (John, Naumann, & Soto, 2008). Those low in the trait, on the other hand, are more frequently careless and irresponsible (McShane & Steen, 2012). Although studies have shown Conscientiousness to be a predictor of various life outcomes such as health and longevity, this paper will focus on the findings that support Conscientiousness as a predictor of job performance and, when one is high in the trait, success in

Many of us can recognize that leaving things to the very last minute is not very wise and can cause an abundance of unnecessary stress. Procrastination is self-sabotage whether it’s to pay a credit card bill, fill up gas in your car, or complete your homework. Procrastination ranges from the most miniscule task to the most significant ones so the question is why do people procrastinate? For myself I rationalize this behavior by saying I work best under pressure but through my recent discoveries I found this isn’t true at all, it was just an excuse. The heavy pressure we feel when an important deadline is approaching physically forces us to complete our work but that doesn’t always mean that our work is good. Starting a project weeks before it is due guarantees that we had time to think and process your ideas therefore our work is our work is generally well-prepared. Starting an assignment the night before it’s due forces us to rush through it just to get it done it does not ensure that our best abilities are being put to use and usually ensures that our best abilities are being put to use and usually ensures that it’s satisfactory at its best from a psychological standpoint procrastinators can adapt