Nowadays, procrastination is usually treated as our biggest enemy. According to Piers Steel: A high rate of college students engages in procrastination, many of them consider themselves procrastinators, and nearly a half of them procrastinate consistently and problematically (Piers Steel 65). For college students, “whose academic lives are characterized by frequent deadlines” (Bruce W. Tuckman 1), academic procrastination can be serious for them. Therefore, we need to know why students like to procrastinate, and then we could know how to avoid it. Plenty of studies have been done to reveal the reasons. We used to think that its reason is simple and it can be easily solved. Yet the reasons are much more complicated than what we thought. his
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A factor analysis of the reason for procrastination indicated that the factors Fear of Failure and Aversiveness of the Task accounted for most of the variance (Laura J. Solomon and Esther D. Rothblum 503). That is saying it is not because we do not have the ability to control ourselves, but we do not want to. People all have sensibility and reason. In most instances, people cannot be controlled by their reason entirely. Sensibility tend to let people do something easy and fun. That is to say, procrastination consistent with our …show more content…
In fact, most people will do it subconsciously. According to Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch, people self-imposed costly deadlines to overcome procrastination, and self-imposed deadlines effective in improving task performance, and people do not self-imposed deadlines optimally.
Some high procrastinators may still benefit from traditional interventions for procrastination such as time management and study skills counseling, self-discipline and self-criticism, compliance-based and defiance-based paradoxical strategies, and the use of external contingencies, others may benefit more from interventions which focus on anxiety management and reduction (Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie 15).
As procrastination is paid more and more attention, the studies of its reasons will be more and more. People now do not consider it as a simple problem which only correlated only with one’s ability. It is more likely to be a comprehensive reflection of many complicated psychological effects and personal experience. From the conclusion we can predict that if normal people do not pay any attention on this, everyone has the risk to suffer
A factor analysis of the reason for procrastination indicated that the factors Fear of Failure and Aversiveness of the Task accounted for most of the variance (Laura J. Solomon and Esther D. Rothblum 503). That is saying it is not because we do not have the ability to control ourselves, but we do not want to. People all have sensibility and reason. In most instances, people cannot be controlled by their reason entirely. Sensibility tend to let people do something easy and fun. That is to say, procrastination consistent with our …show more content…
In fact, most people will do it subconsciously. According to Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch, people self-imposed costly deadlines to overcome procrastination, and self-imposed deadlines effective in improving task performance, and people do not self-imposed deadlines optimally.
Some high procrastinators may still benefit from traditional interventions for procrastination such as time management and study skills counseling, self-discipline and self-criticism, compliance-based and defiance-based paradoxical strategies, and the use of external contingencies, others may benefit more from interventions which focus on anxiety management and reduction (Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie 15).
As procrastination is paid more and more attention, the studies of its reasons will be more and more. People now do not consider it as a simple problem which only correlated only with one’s ability. It is more likely to be a comprehensive reflection of many complicated psychological effects and personal experience. From the conclusion we can predict that if normal people do not pay any attention on this, everyone has the risk to suffer