Procrastination Current Issues and New Directions. Edited by Joseph Ferrari and Timothy Pychyl. A special issue of the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality. Select Press, 2000. 328 pages including name and subject index. Academic research papers.
This volume contains 23 articles about both situational and dispositional forms of procrastination. The first section examines Situational Procrastination, particularly academic procrastination. The articles in this section look at personality and individual difference variables, such as self-esteem, perfectionism, and neuroticism; gender comparisons; and different student populations. Other studies on academic procrastination focus on motivational factors, goals, and planning skills. The second section of the issue explores Dispositional Procrastination. Empirical articles cover emotional states associated with procrastination, cognitions and perceptions related to task delays, motivational and attentional aspects of procrastination, and self-deception and optimism aspects of chronic procrastination.
Contents:
Correlates and Consequences of Behavioral Procrastination: The Effects of Academic Procrastination, Self-Consciousness, Self-Esteem and Self-Handicapping
Putting off Until Tomorrow What is Better Done Today: Academic Procrastination as a Function of Motivation Toward College Work
Academic Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Control: Associations with Vigilant and Avoidant Coping
Competing Demands and Complimentary Motives: Procrastination on Intrinsically and Extrinsically Motivated Summer Projects
Eveningness Predicts Academic Procrastination: The Mediating Role of Neuroticism
When Socially Induced Temporal Myopia Interferes with Academic Goal-Setting
Academic Procrastination and Self-Handicapping: Gender Differences in Response to Noncontingent Feedback
Academic Procrastinators and Perfectionistic Tendencies Among Graduate Students
Academic Procrastination of Adolescents in English and Mathematics: Gender and Personality Variations
Academic Procrastination by Nontraditional Students
Procrastination and the Planning Fallacy: An Examination of the Study Habits of University Students
Procrastination: A Means of Avoiding Shame or Guilt?
Procrastination and Attention: Factor Analysis of Attention Deficit, Boredomness, Intelligence, Self-Esteem, and Task Delay Frequencies
Time Orientations of Procrastinators: Focusing on the Past, Present, or Future?
Does Procrastination Mediate the Relationship between Optimism and Subsequent Stress?
The Relationship Between Job Characteristics and Workplace Procrastination as Moderated by Locus of Control
Decisional and Behavioral Procrastination: How They Relate to Self-Discrepancies
Five Days of Emotion: An Experience Sampling Study of Undergraduate Student Procrastination
The Recall of Completed and Noncompleted Tasks Through Daily Logs to Measure Procrastination
Procrastination in Job-Seeking: An Analysis of Motivational Processes and Feelings of Hopelessness
Wishful Thinking and Procrastination
Trait Procrastinators and Behavior/Trait-Specific Cognitions
