Overcoming procrastination? A meta-analysis of intervention studies
By W. van Eerde, Katrin B. Klingsieck. Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
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Abstract We present a meta-analysis of 24 studies on procrastination interventions (total k = 44, N = 1173) in order to find out 1) whether people can reduce their level of procrastination, and 2) if so, which type of intervention leads to the strongest reduction. We compared four different types of interventions: Self-regulation, cognitive behavioral therapy, other therapeutic approaches, and interventions focusing on individuals’ strengths and resources. A large reduction in procrastination after the interventions was found, and the effects remained stable in follow-up assessments. The findings so far suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy reduced procrastination more strongly than the other types of interventions. Other moderator variables, such as the duration of the intervention, had no significant effects. We propose future research that may help to build stronger evidence for the effects of interventions, as well as some guidelines for interventions.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- Prediction of Academic Procrastination by Fear of Failure and Self-Regulation. (2020, background): “In severe cases of academic procrastination in students, they need to be referred to psychologists and counselors for treatment, and the findings so far suggest that cognitive behavioral therapy reduced procrastination more than the other types of interventions (Van Erde & Klingsieck, 2018).”
- Challenges in the online component of blended learning: A systematic review (2020, background): “Procrastination is widely considered a psychological dysfunction behavior (van Eerde & Klingsieck, 2018), as such, majority of the research activities on procrastination were from the medical and psychological domain.”