The Mystery of “Should”: Procrastination, Delay, and Reactance
in Academic Settings

J 2015

The Mystery of “Should”: Procrastination, Delay, and Reactance in Academic Settings

MALATINCOVÁ, Tatiana

Basic information

Original name

The Mystery of “Should”: Procrastination, Delay, and Reactance in Academic Settings

Name in Czech

Záhada "měl bych": Prokrastinace, odkládání a reaktance v akademickém kontextu

Authors

MALATINCOVÁ, Tatiana (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Personality and Individual Differences, Elsevier, 2015, 0191-8869

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914004607

Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.946

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00082114

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.015

UT WoS

000351193400010

Keywords (in Czech)

akademická prokrastinace; psychologická reaktance; odkládání

Keywords in English

Academic procrastination; psychological reactance; delay

Abstract

V originále

The study explores the effect of trait reactance on procrastination and delay in students of two study programmes differing in the structuring of academic tasks and the role they play in course assessment. Both subsamples (n = 97 and 139) completed measures of trait reactance, chronic academic procrastination, self-reported task procrastination and actual task delay. The data were analyzed using path analysis and SEM. As hypothesized, psychological reactance positively predicted procrastination, especially the 'chronic delay' component underlying all three procrastination-related measures. However, some of the effect of reactance on this delay-dependent component of procrastination was apparently suppressed by what might have been a subjective (delay-independent) component of self-reported task procrastination. Furthermore, reactance was significantly related to delay only when good performance on the task was of relatively high importance. Apart from providing evidence for a possible link between reactance and procrastination, the results also demonstrate that it is important to distinguish between the experiential and objective (temporal) components of procrastination, as the two might be represented by completely different nomological networks.

Links

MUNI/21/MAL/2013, interní kód MU

Name: Prediktory regulačných problémov v akademickom prostredí

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

MALATINCOVÁ, Tatiana. The Mystery of “Should”: Procrastination, Delay, and Reactance in Academic Settings. Personality and Individual Differences. Elsevier, 2015, vol. 72, January, p. 52-58. ISSN 0191-8869. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.015.

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MALATINCOVÁ, Tatiana. The Mystery of “Should”: Procrastination, Delay, and Reactance in Academic Settings. \textit{Personality and Individual Differences}. Elsevier, 2015, vol.~72, January, p.~52-58. ISSN~0191-8869. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.08.015.

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