Procrastinate Procrastinating: The Controversy Between Continuing and Stopping Students' Procrastinating
Tokyo Gakugei University International Secondary School:
Grade 3, Class 3, Number 25, Michi Hosokawa
It is effortless to feel reluctant and delay to undertake tasks, whereas being unable to stop the habit of prolonging complicates circumstances. As most have probably perceived from experiencing stress, it costs their health negatively. Surprisingly, people have been procrastinating for years, going back to around 700 BC in Greece when Hesiod wrote against the behavior of his over-relying brother Perses in his poem. "Do not put your work off till tomorrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off …show more content…
A study conducted by the Huron University(2007) showed that college students who were made to do high-effort high-stress condition assignments or lengthy essays with short time limit, procrastinated more than those who either had to write less or had more time, which lead to more anxiety (Musolino, 2007 p.232, 234). Thus, the paper quality would be low since the writing amount is large, but the time to work on it is short. Also, Musolino (2007, p.237) states of the students' motives come from sleep deprivement, caffeine, and stress rather than energy leading to more procrastination, emphasizing the necessity to balance the management of stress and time. A psychologist in Texas, Pickhardt (2009) explains that procrastination is costly because delay shortens the time to finish a project, and the deadline induces pressure and stress. Also, the aftermath of the effort is fatigue, burnout or even breakdown, affecting the health of the student very greatly. Stress takes its toll in many forms from short term to long term, regular to chronic. In Sirois and Pychyl's procrastination and health model (2016, p.76), indirectly, they cause inadequate diet and exercise, obesity, cardiovascular problems, physical inactivity, sleep insufficiency, and other minor health issues. On the other hand, direct problems are headaches, infections, gastrointestinal issues, inflammatory dysregulation, immunocompromise, and other serious problems. Procrastinating is such an easy thing to do, and yet it brings harm to human
Tokyo Gakugei University International Secondary School:
Grade 3, Class 3, Number 25, Michi Hosokawa
It is effortless to feel reluctant and delay to undertake tasks, whereas being unable to stop the habit of prolonging complicates circumstances. As most have probably perceived from experiencing stress, it costs their health negatively. Surprisingly, people have been procrastinating for years, going back to around 700 BC in Greece when Hesiod wrote against the behavior of his over-relying brother Perses in his poem. "Do not put your work off till tomorrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off …show more content…
A study conducted by the Huron University(2007) showed that college students who were made to do high-effort high-stress condition assignments or lengthy essays with short time limit, procrastinated more than those who either had to write less or had more time, which lead to more anxiety (Musolino, 2007 p.232, 234). Thus, the paper quality would be low since the writing amount is large, but the time to work on it is short. Also, Musolino (2007, p.237) states of the students' motives come from sleep deprivement, caffeine, and stress rather than energy leading to more procrastination, emphasizing the necessity to balance the management of stress and time. A psychologist in Texas, Pickhardt (2009) explains that procrastination is costly because delay shortens the time to finish a project, and the deadline induces pressure and stress. Also, the aftermath of the effort is fatigue, burnout or even breakdown, affecting the health of the student very greatly. Stress takes its toll in many forms from short term to long term, regular to chronic. In Sirois and Pychyl's procrastination and health model (2016, p.76), indirectly, they cause inadequate diet and exercise, obesity, cardiovascular problems, physical inactivity, sleep insufficiency, and other minor health issues. On the other hand, direct problems are headaches, infections, gastrointestinal issues, inflammatory dysregulation, immunocompromise, and other serious problems. Procrastinating is such an easy thing to do, and yet it brings harm to human