Differential incidence of procrastination between blue and white-collar workers

By Corey A. Hammer, Joseph R. Ferrari. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Arousal, avoidant and decisional procrastinators: Do they exist? (2010, methodology): “Less formally introduced but now routinely incorporated is decisional procrastination, assessed by the DPQ (e.g., Ferrari, Özer, & Demir, 2009; Hammer & Ferrari, 2002).”
Sex, Education and Procrastination: An Epidemiological Study of Procrastinators’ Characteristics from A Global Sample (2013, result): “Previous research found these demographic variables as potential indicators of procrastination tendencies (Ferrari, Johnson & McCown, 1995; Ferrari, Dovosko & Joseph, 2005; Hammer & Ferrari, 2002; Harriott & Ferrari, 1996), but these studies used smaller sample sizes.”
Academic procrastination of undergraduates: Low self-efficacy to self-regulate predicts higher levels of procrastination (2008, background): “Hammer and Ferrari (2002) found as many as 20% of adults experience chronic procrastination for everyday tasks, while the rate for problematic academic procrastination among undergraduates is estimated to be at least 70–95% (Ellis & Knaus, 1977; Steel, 2007), with estimates of chronic or severe…”
Measuring procrastination at work and its associated workplace aspects (2016, unknown): “For instance, some studies found that procrastination is more common among high-status employees (Hammer & Ferrari, 2003; Vitak et al., 2011).”
Time Perspective and Procrastination in the Workplace: An Empirical Investigation (2012, background): “Furthermore, white-collar workers and professional employees tend to demonstrate higher levels of procrastination than blue-collar workers and unskilled employees (Hammer and Ferrari, 2003).”
An examination of blue- versus white-collar workers’ conceptualizations of job satisfaction facets (2010, methodology): “For this paper, we follow others in defining blue-collar workers as those who perform primarily physical work and whose career paths are relatively restricted (Gibson & Papa, 2000; Lederer, 1987) and white-collar workers as professional and semi-professional employees (Hammer & Ferrari, 2002).”
When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity (2020, unknown): “About 20% of the general population is under the influence of chronic procrastination (Hammer & Ferrari, 2002; Harriott & Ferrari, 1996; McCown & Johnson, 1989) and as many as 80% to 95% of college students admit to procrastinating (Ellis & Knaus, 1979; Steel, 2010).”