The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27247Dato
2022-11-03Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Sammendrag
Academic procrastination – habitually delaying work with academic tasks to
the extent that the delays become detrimental to performance, wellbeing, and
health – represents a substantial personal, systemic, and societal problem.
Still, efforts to prevent and reduce it are surprisingly scarce and often offered
as treatment regimens rather than preventive efforts. Based on the principles
of functional analysis and a broad examination of factors that are important for
academic procrastinatory behaviors, this paper aims to describe a strategy for
analyzing individual controlling conditions for procrastination and give parallel
advice on how to change those controlling conditions. Both are ideographic,
allowing for individual and dynamic analyses of factors responsible for
instigating and maintaining procrastination, as well as tailor-made remedies
that address controlling conditions in preventive and curative efforts to reduce
procrastination. Although functional analysis integrates well with important
research findings in the procrastination field, this approach suggests new
criteria for identifying procrastinatory behaviors and an alternative model for
analyzing their control conditions. We conclude that a functional approach
may supplement procrastination research and efforts to prevent and alleviate
this detrimental habit.
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Frontiers MediaSitering
Svartdal, Løkke. The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit. Frontiers in Psychology. 2022Metadata
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