Why not procrastinate? Development and validation of a new active procrastination scale.

Autor: Choi JN; College of Business Administration, Seoul National University, Shinlim-dong, San 56-1, Kwanak-ku, Seoul 151-916, South Korea. jnchoi@snu.kr, Moran SV
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of social psychology [J Soc Psychol] 2009 Apr; Vol. 149 (2), pp. 195-211.
DOI: 10.3200/SOCP.149.2.195-212
Abstrakt: Procrastination has been studied as a dysfunctional, self-effacing behavior that ultimately results in undesirable outcomes. However, A. H. C. Chu and J. N. Choi (2005) found a different form of procrastination (i.e., active procrastination) that leads to desirable outcomes. The construct of active procrastination has a high potential to expand the time management literature and is likely to be adopted by researchers in multiple areas of psychology. To facilitate the research on this new construct and its further integration into the literature, the authors developed and validated a new, expanded measure of active procrastination that reliably assesses its four dimensions. Using this new measure of active procrastination, they further examined its nomological network. The new 16-item measure is a critical step toward further empirical investigation of active procrastination.
Databáze: MEDLINE