Exploring the Role of Self-Control on Student Procrastination

Wijaya, Hariz Enggar; Tori, Arief Rahman

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“…For example, executive functions (e.g., inhibition) that facilitated self‐control were significant predictors of procrastinators (Rabin, Fogel, & Nutter‐Upham, 2011). Compared to non‐procrastinators, procrastinators showed a reduced ability to override the immediate rewards that disrupted the goal pursuits (Chu & Choi, 2005; Wolters, 2003), which suggested a lack of self‐control ability among those who procrastinated more (Steel, 2007; Wijaya & Tori, 2018). People, who were trained for strengthening self‐control, benefited from sustaining the pursuit of long‐term goals with a reduced intention‐action gap (Grunschel, Patrzek, Klingsieck, & Fries, 2018; Job, Friese, & Bernecker, 2015).…”

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The anxiety‐specific hippocampus–prefrontal cortex pathways links to procrastination through self‐control

Zhang

Chen

et al. 2021

Human Brain Mapping

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Procrastination, which is defined as delaying an intended course of action despite negative outcomes, is demonstrated to have a deal with negative emotion including trait anxiety. Although highly anxious individuals showed impoverished control ability, no studies have indicated the role of self‐control in the relationship between trait anxiety and procrastination, and its neural correlates. To this end, we used the sliding window method to calculate the temporal deviation of dynamic functional connectivity (FC) in 312 healthy participants who underwent the resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. In line with our hypothesis, higher trait anxiety is linked to more procrastination via poorer self‐control. Besides, the dynamic FC analyses showed that trait anxiety was positively correlated with dynamic FC variability in hippocampus–prefrontal cortex (HPC–PFC) pathways, including left rostral hippocampus–left superior frontal gyrus (left rHPC–left SFG), and left rHPC–right middle frontal gyrus (left rHPC–‐MFG). Furthermore, the structural equation modeling (SEM) uncovered a mediated role of self‐control in the association between the anxiety‐specific brain connectivity and procrastination. These findings suggest that the HPC–PFC pathways may reflect impoverished regulatory ability over the negative thoughts for anxious individuals, and thereby incurs more procrastination, which enhances our understanding of how trait anxiety links to procrastination.

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The anxiety‐specific hippocampus–prefrontal cortex pathways links to procrastination through self‐control

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Chen

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“…This capacity to successfully deal with problematic desires that conflict with one’s goals is crucial for task completion and procrastination ( Sirois and Pychyl, 2013 ; Pychyl and Sirois, 2016 ). Indeed, self-control is negatively related to the general procrastination tendency ( Wijaya and Tori, 2018 ). In short, self-control prevents one from giving in to the temptation of quitting the task in favor of more pleasant alternatives or not engaging with it at all.…”

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I’ll Do It – After One More Scroll: The Effects of Boredom Proneness, Self-Control, and Impulsivity on Online Procrastination

Sümer

Büttner

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Procrastination is a common phenomenon. With the increasing ubiquity of new media, research has started to investigate the ways in which these technologies are used as alternatives to task engagement. This paper extends the literature by examining procrastinatory uses of social media, instant messaging, and online shopping with respect to boredom proneness, self-control, and impulsivity among German and Turkish samples. Regression analyses revealed that boredom proneness, self-control, and the perseverance facet of impulsivity are especially significant predictors of online procrastination in both samples. The results between the two studies differ in terms of impulsivity. The findings of this paper highlight the thus far understudied role of boredom proneness and various aspects of impulsivity in online procrastination, and demonstrate that social media procrastination, instant messaging procrastination, and shopping procrastination tendencies likely have distinct underlying mechanisms.

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“…Specifically, it is proposed that self-control involves setting goals, engaging in goal-directed behavior, monitoring task progress toward goals, and adjusting one’s behavior when sufficient progress towards the goals has not been made [ 26 ]. Behaviorally oriented psychologists have conceptualized procrastination as a main reason of failure to perform self-control [ 3 , 27 , 28 , 29 ]. Theoretically, according to the ego-depletion theory, human beings are thought to possess a limited capacity for self-control (i.e., limited self-control resource model) [ 30 , 31 ].…”

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Striving to Avoid Inferiority and Procrastination among University Students: The Mediating Roles of Stress and Self-Control

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Lo²,

Ng³

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IJERPH

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The current study intended to examine whether the relationship between university students’ striving to avoid inferiority (SAI) and procrastination was serially mediated by stress and self-control. The sample consisted of 154 Hong Kong university students. Their levels of striving to avoid inferiority, stress, self-control, and procrastination were measured by the Striving to Avoid Inferiority Scale (SAIS), the stress subscale of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), the Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ), and the General Procrastination Scale (GPS), respectively. The results of structural equation modeling revealed that SAI positively predicted stress, stress negatively predicted self-control, and self-control negatively predicted procrastination. SAI did not directly predict procrastination. The results of bootstrapping analyses supported the hypotheses that the effect of stress on procrastination was mediated by self-control, the effect of SAI on self-control was mediated by stress, and more importantly, the effect of SAI on procrastination was serially mediated by stress and self-control. Further research is suggested to investigate the thoughts and feelings pertinent to procrastination and the actual duration of procrastination among university students.

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Exploring the Role of Self-Control on Student Procrastination

Cited by 15 publications

References 21 publications

The anxiety‐specific hippocampus–prefrontal cortex pathways links to procrastination through self‐control

The anxiety‐specific hippocampus–prefrontal cortex pathways links to procrastination through self‐control

I’ll Do It – After One More Scroll: The Effects of Boredom Proneness, Self-Control, and Impulsivity on Online Procrastination

Striving to Avoid Inferiority and Procrastination among University Students: The Mediating Roles of Stress and Self-Control

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