Procrastination - Science topic

Hi! Have you found a solution to the problem? We seem to have the same issues and I was wondering if you managed to get anywhere.

In my opinion, this issue is rather difficult to solve.

1. Before submission all authors are supposed to read and approve the content of the manuscript. In your final message to all coauthors, you could state: “If you do not respond until [DATE], I will assume that you agree to the content of the manuscript and its submission to [JOURNAL]”; or a similar phrase.

2. For submission you need a valid email address and the correct affiliation of all coauthors.

3. Even more difficult to solve, upon acceptance of a manuscript most journals ask all coauthors to electronically sign a conflict of interest statement and a copyright transfer agreement; if any author fails to do so the manuscript will not be published.

There is a good dissertation on the subject and countless publications on the Internet. Please refer

https://dam-oclc.bac-lac.gc.ca › download

What may happen is that in avoidance of something dreaded, such as some something feared activity outside their residence (exposing to public scrutiny, doctor's appointment for example), a person may procrastinate by attempting to control something (such as cleaning something perfectly, changing clothing for hours to achieve the best appearance). So this is also about locus of control, fears of failure, feelings of inferiority.

10 Most Common Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Symptoms

Published: 10/4/2013

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an anxiety-driven condition, leaves a person at the mercy of uncontrollable thoughts, behaviors and rituals. While many people encounter nagging worries, such as forgetting to turn-off the coffee pot, the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder become so pronounced that it affects a person’s ability to carry out normal everyday tasks.

Not surprisingly, the 10 most common symptoms associated with the disorder stem from a root cause of anxiety. In an effort to relieve feelings of anxiety, persons afflicted by OCD may carry out repetitive behaviors, but experience little if any relief in the process. The condition seems to perpetuate itself by keeping a person embroiled inside an anxiety-producing mindset. Even in cases where a person knows a particular thought or behavior is irrational, he or she is unable to break free.

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, most people affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder begin to experience symptoms by the age of 30. The cause of the condition remains unknown, though genetics appears to have some influence on whether a person will develop the disorder. Other suspected causes include head injuries, infections and abnormal activity in certain areas of the brain.

10 most common symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The first two listed actually function as core symptoms that underlie and fuel OCD disorders.

Obsessive compulsive disorder can leave you with uncontrollable behaviors.

Resources:

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1 very rarely or not applies to me

2 rarely applies to me

3 sometimes applies to me

4 often applies to me

5 very often applies to me

It was easier for me to translate from German

see also

https://surveyyourself.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/irrational-procrastination-scale.pdf as noted in

It is a credible point. But in this study, I have considered only these three variables.

Hello, Jerl! I would like to recommend a recent work by Vangsness et al. (2022). The study assessed 10 well-documented self-report measures of procrastination on the reliability, validity and psychometric properties. It may help you decide which one is most appropriate for your study design. Here is the link:

MANOVA would be ok. Justify with the results.

I don't see anything wrong if you could replicate the regression on your own separate data and obtain your results. This is in spite of your knowledge of the results of correlation between the variables involved.

Run ANoVA test with tukey HSD

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I am not sure what can happen when we measure morning baseline. HRV can for example being used as a predictor for ventricular tachycardia, specially when the patient has got ICD implanted. It might be possible to find some risk stratification, just prior to VT or VF.The socalled multipole method extracts information both in the frequency domain as well as time domain. The multipole method perform better than in traditional methods

Start with the materials and methods because you have already completed this part

Hello Mirjam,

I think you'd be better off using the full scales for the three measures (motivation, procrastination, study progress) rather than throw away information by collapsing each of these into dichotomous levels. As well, the the ability of a path model to explain variation in these from measures of S-R learning and executive function is likely to be better with full scores.

If your research aim is to identify: (a) whether distinct profiles for these three measures exist; and (b) whether experts would endorse them as meaningfully different (or whether empirical differences exist among them with respect to self-regulated learning and executive function scores), then you might consider first trying cluster analysis (using motiv, procrast, & st progress as the scores for forming clusters).

Good luck with your work.

Thank you so much for the article

http://www.yorku.ca/rokada/psyctest/prcrasts.pdf

This should help.

I looked to see what I could find; I saw this review of procrastination measures, but none were particularly relevant to clinical professions:

Identifying the Neural Substrates of Procrastination: a Resting-State fMRI Study

Wenwen Zhang, Xiangpeng Wang, Tingyong Feng Sci Rep. 2016; 6: 33203

Understanding the Cognitive and Genetic Underpinnings of Procrastination: Evidence for Shared Genetic Influences with Goal Management and Executive Function Abilities

Daniel E. Gustavson, Akira Miyake, John K. Hewitt, Naomi P. Friedman : J Exp Psychol Gen. 2015 Dec; 144(6): 1063–1079.

Check if the authors are here on RG and connect with them.

Many thanks Ahmed Saeed Mohmed .

Hi Kopi!

Procrastination in academic studies is a serious issue that may cause many more than we think to leave their academic programme. I don’t know much about special methodologies in academic learning or support services in Sweden, I guess that often is first some initial introduction to watch own behaviour, and second, individual help when requested or called upon.

i think procrastination may increase with flexibility in studies, and with more asynchronous parts of courses to do whenever it suits the individual during a time period. This is a balance - a very flexible course can include many untraditional learners just by being flexible, but provides also lot of opportunities to procrastination. I and colleagues experimented with using a changed course design, learning from the software industry’s project models as agile frameworks (scrum, etc). The paper is Shifting and Agile Time Boxes in Course Design. Attached. (A research area for my doctoral studies was in time factors for course design and access to education). I also want to recommend two books, more of the self-help kind: Carol Dweck: Mindset and Jane B Burka & Lenora Yuen: Procrastination - why you do it and what to do about it. Both also available as audiobooks.

thank you Madhusudhana Kamath it is very helpful!!!

Illona, thank you, yes it does interest me.

You need to recognize that everyone procrastinates at least a little! Typically, people procrastinate when something seems like a huge undertaking or too difficult to do.