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ArticleAging & mental health2024

Procrastination, depressive symptomatology, and loneliness in later life.

Cormac Monaghan, Ione Avila-Palencia, S Duke Han, Joanna McHugh Power

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Article in Aging & mental health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cormac MonaghanHamilton Institute, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-9012-3060
Ione Avila-PalenciaCentre for Public Health, Queens University, Belfast, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-4353-2256
S Duke HanDepartment of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2453-9230
Joanna McHugh PowerDepartment of Psychology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-7387-3107
National University of Ireland, Maynooth · IEUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

HRS Yrs29-34: Y33 SSA CoFundingU01AG009740 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Jessica Faul, KENNETH M LANGA · 1990 to 2026
$555.8M
Mid-Career Development and Mentoring on Financial Vulnerability and Alzheimer's DiseaseK24AG081325 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI DUKE HAN · 2023 to 2026
$798k
NIA NIH HHS K24 AG081325NIA NIH HHS U01 AG009740
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesProcrastination is an almost universal behaviour and yet little research to date has focused on procrastination among older adults. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential association between age and procrastination, and the potential mediating roles of depressive symptomatology and loneliness.

methodStructural equation modelling was applied to data from 1309 participants (aged 29-92) from two waves United States Health and Retirement Study (2016-2020). Within the model, sex, education, marital status, and job status were added as covariates.

resultsThere was no statistically significant direct effect between age and procrastination (β = 0.06,

conclusionWhile age was not directly associated with procrastination, increasing age was associated with a decreased likelihood of depressive symptomatology, which was in turn associated with an increased likelihood of procrastination. Such findings indicates that age demonstrates no association with procrastination because of the suppressing effect of depressive symptomatology.

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DepressionLonelinessProcrastinationAdultAgedAged, 80 and overAge FactorsAgingFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMotivationUnited StatesHealth and retirement studymediationmental healthstructural equation modellingvoluntary delay

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PMCPMC11324379
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