Procrastination out of Habit? The Role of Impulsive Versus Reflective Media Selection in Procrastinatory Media Use

By Anna Schnauber-Stockmann, Adrian Meier, Leonard Reinecke. Media Psychology, 2018

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ABSTRACT The pervasive access to media options seriously challenges users’ self-regulatory abilities. One example of deficient self-regulation in the context of media use is procrastination—impulsively ‘giving in’ to available media options despite goal conflicts with more important tasks. This study investigaes procrastinatory media use across 3 types of media (TV, computer, smartphone) from a dual-systems perspective, taking both person-level and situation-level predictors into account. Results from a 14-day long diary study (N = 347) suggest that procrastinatory media use is driven by automatic media selection, which is facilitated by strong media habits (person level) and low motivation for behavioral control (situation level). The results underline the value of a dual-systems perspective on media choices in our media-saturated environment.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/14ccf34c45a1e593edc70409e1995cbcb237e41b

Citations in the corpus

• Psychological and behavioral outcomes of social media-induced fear of missing out at the workplace (2021, unknown): “This argument aligns with prior studies that have shown procrastination to be related to the depletion of cognitive resources (Schnauber-Stockmann et al., 2018) and both mental and physical exhaustion (Reinecke & Hofmann, 2016).”