ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
Procrastination and Stress: A Conceptual Review of Why Context Matters.
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- Procrastination, stress, and self-rated health: A multi-sample meta-analysis.British journal of health psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Design, Development and Validation of a Training Package for Treating Procrastination in Students Based on Grounded Theory: A Mixed-Methods Approach.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- Academic Procrastination Scale-Short (APS-S): psychometric validation of the Spanish version in Honduran undergraduate students.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Problematic Use of Social Networks, Perceived Stress, Distraction, and Self-Management in Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- How digital stress affects academic procrastination and subjective well-being: mediating effect of ego depletion.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Perceived discrimination and academic procrastination among college students with physical disabilities: the mediating role of feelings of shame and self-handicapping.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Behavioral barriers in the management of spinal muscular atrophy: The role of procrastination, regret, and burnout.PloS one · 2026Article
- Academic procrastination and academic engagement among dentistry students at a Peruvian university: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Personality traits and procrastination among medical students: the mediating role of trait emotional intelligence.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The effects of Slavin model-based time management training on procrastination in nursing students: a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Socio-ecological correlates of exercise procrastination and exercise addiction: a preliminary exploratory study using a single-university sample.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Exploring heterogeneous profiles of academic performance among college students: a latent profile and LASSO regression analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Perfectionism and practice procrastination in piano majors: a moderated mediation model of music performance anxiety and self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Burnout in Medical Students: An Exploration of Demographic, Academic, and Psychological Variables.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Study longer or study effectively? Better study strategies can compensate for less study time and predict goal achievement and lower negative affect.The British journal of educational psychology · 2025Article
- Social Media Addiction and Procrastination in Peruvian University Students: Exploring the Role of Emotional Regulation and Age Moderation.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Investigating the link between trait procrastination and college students' sleep quality: the mediating role of self-efficacy and executive function.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Research over the past two decades has continued to highlight the robust associations between procrastination and stress across multiple populations and contexts. Despite this burgeoning evidence base and theory linking procrastination to higher levels of stress, as well as the reverse, the role of context in this potentially dynamic association has received relatively little attention. In this conceptual review I argue that from a mood regulation perspective of procrastination, stressful contexts necessarily increase risk for procrastination because they deplete coping resources and lower the threshold for tolerating negative emotions. Drawing on insights from coping and emotion regulation theory, the new stress context vulnerability model of procrastination proposes that the risk for procrastination increases in stressful contexts primarily because procrastination is a low-resource means of avoiding aversive and difficult task-related emotions. The new model is then applied to evidence on the primary and secondary sources of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they may have increased vulnerability for procrastination. After discussing potential applications of the new model for understanding how and why risk for procrastination may increase in other stressful contexts, approaches that might mitigate vulnerability for procrastination in high-stress contexts are discussed. Overall, this new stress context vulnerability model underscores the need for taking a more compassionate view of the antecedents and factors that may increase the risk for procrastination.
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