Five days of emotion: An experience sampling study of undergraduate student procrastination.

By T. A. Pychyl, Jonathan Lee, R. Thibodeau, Allan W. Blunt. 2000

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The nature of procrastination: a meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure. (2007, methodology): “This research has used a variety of methodologies, including the more rigorous formats of time sampling and daily logs (Ferrari & Scher, 2000; Pychyl et al., 2000).”
“I'll look after my health, later”: an investigation of procrastination and health (2003, background): “As Sergerstrom (2000) has suggested, the mediational role of health behaviors may work in conjunction with or independent of the role of stress.”
An Empirical Test of the Theory of Gamified Learning (2014, background): “To the dismay of the instructor and reflecting a general tendency among undergraduates toward procrastination (Pychyl, Lee, Thibodeau, & Blunt, 2000), most students would wait until the end of the semester to work on the project, usually a day or two before it was due.”
My Instructor Made Me Do It: Task Characteristics of Procrastination (2005, background): “Various studies have found procrastination to affect 50% to 95% of undergraduate students (cf. Janssen and Carton 1999; Kachgal, Hansen, and Nutter 2001; Pychyl et al. 2000; Pychyl, Morin, and Salmon 2000).”
I forgive myself, now I can study: How self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination (2010, background): “According to Steel (2007), results from a metaanalysis suggest procrastination might be the quintessential self-regulatory failure.”