Procrastination and demographic characteristics in Spanish adults: further evidence.(Replications and Refinement)

Journal of Social Psychology, The, October, 2006 by Argumedo, Doris; Diaz, Karem; Diaz-Morales, Juan Francisco; Ferrari, Joseph R.

PURPOSIVE AND FREQUENT DELAY in a person's start or completion of a task to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort researchers have called chronic procrastination (Ferrari, Johnson, & McCown, 1995; Ferrari & Pychyl, 2000). Researchers have established three forms of chronic procrastination: avoidant procrastination, avoidance of task information that pertains to personal abilities, to protect self-esteem; decisional procrastination, delays in decision-making situations; and arousal procrastination, a thrill-seeking or rush experience in work against a deadline (Ferrari et al., 1995; Ferrari & Pychyl). Several researchers have shown that procrastination was related to a series of demographic characteristics in adult samples. McCown and Roberts (1994) found that...

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