Publication details
Completing procrastination mosaic : Personality predictors beyond conscientiousness
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The purpose of the study was to identify independent predictors which would contribute to the explained variance of academic procrastination, especially after controlling for conscientiousness, and at the same time could be considered as hypothetical causal factors. The predictors tested included reactance, generalized academic task aversiveness, cognitive self-regulation and interference, performance-enhancing arousal, self-efficacy, trait anxiety, and autonomous v. controlled motivation. Preliminary results obtained on data from 96 students confirmed relatively strong significant effects of conscientiousness, reactance, cognitive self-regulation, and task aversiveness, and relatively weaker effects of need of arousal, trait anxiety, introjected motivation, and amotivation on academic procrastination. Only three variables apart from conscientiousness, however, emerged as convincing independent predictors of academic procrastination: reactance, cognitive self-regulation, and, to a limited degree, task aversiveness. |
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