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The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit
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 ofte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9669985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405131 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019261 |
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author | Svartdal, Frode Løkke, Jon Arne |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-96699852022-11-18 The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit Svartdal, Frode Løkke, Jon Arne Front Psychol Psychology 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9669985/ /pubmed/36405131 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019261 Text en Copyright © 2022 Svartdal and Løkke. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Svartdal, Frode Løkke, Jon Arne The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit |
title | The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit |
title_full | The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit |
title_fullStr | The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit |
title_full_unstemmed | The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit |
title_short | The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit |
title_sort | abc of academic procrastination: functional analysis of a detrimental habit |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9669985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36405131 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019261 |
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