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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| 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 | doaj.art-c3cff37fcb4749cb9d3da9f2a100b5d22022-12-22T03:57:22ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-11-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.10192611019261The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habitFrode Svartdal0Jon Arne Løkke1Department of Psychology UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NorwayDepartment of Welfare, Management and Organisation, Østfold University College, Halden, Østfold, NorwayAcademic 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019261/fullprocrastinationfunctional analysisinterventionpreventionself-control |
| spellingShingle | Frode Svartdal Jon Arne Løkke The ABC of academic procrastination: Functional analysis of a detrimental habit Frontiers in Psychology procrastination functional analysis intervention prevention self-control |
| 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 | procrastination functional analysis intervention prevention self-control |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1019261/full |
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