Rethinking Procrastination: Positive Effects of "Active" Procrastination Behavior on Attitudes and Performance

By Angela Hsin Chun Chu, Jin Nam Choi. Journal of Social Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The Impact of Online Graduate Students' Motivation and Self-Regulation on Academic Procrastination (2010, background): “Chu and Choi (2005) differentiate between passive procrastination and active procrastination.”
Academic Procrastinators and Their Self-Regulation (2012, background): “She exhibited characteristics of active procrastinators as described by Chu and Choi (2005). Like other high procrastinators, she reported she concentrated better on a task when under a limited amount of times.”
Design Your Own Job Through Job Crafting (2014, background): “…which represents a withdrawal-oriented coping mechanism (Parker & Endler, 1996), slow or sloppy work and poor attendance reflecting counterproductive behavior (Gruys, 1999), and procrastination where enjoyable tasks are prioritized above important tasks (Chu & Choi, 2005; Klingsieck, 2013).”
A Correlational Study on Dispositional Resilience, Psychological Well-being, and Coping Strategies in University Students (2014, background): “, [4,67,68]) and our initial expectations, differences linked to levels of procrastination in all three groups of university students were not observed.”
Academic procrastination and motivation of adolescents in Turkey (2009, background): “Tuckman (1991) noted an inverse relationship between self-efficacy beliefs and procrastination among college students, and Chu and Choi (2005) proposed that high self-efficacy leads students to initiate tasks and persist on tasks in the face of challenges, whereas low self-efficacy may lead to…”
The nature of procrastination: a meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure. (2007, background): “Several writers have mentioned it as a functional delay or as avoiding rush (e.g., Bernstein, 1998; Chu & Choi, 2005; Ferrari, 1993b).”
When do you procrastinate? Sleep quality and social sleep lag jointly predict self-regulatory failure at work (2016, methodology): “We acknowledge, however, that there can also be positive forms of procrastination: For example, Chun Chu and Choi (2005) entitled individuals who intentionally put of work because they prefer to work under time pressure, are able to meet deadlines, and are satisfied with their outcomes as “active…”
An introduction to contemporary work psychology (2014, background): “Csikszentmihalyi and Nakamura (1989) argued that when individuals engage in activities offering opportunities for growth, they seek challenges to maintain motivation and avoid boredom. This is consistent with the proposition that workers with active jobs (characterized by high job demands and high c”
Less Adaptive or More Maladaptive? A Meta–analytic Investigation of Procrastination and Coping (2015, background): “Similarly, three studies (Chu & Choi, 2005; Dumitrescu, Dogaru, Dogaru, & Manolescu, 2011; Verešová, 2013) found that procrastination was negatively associated with a related construct, proactive coping, which involves taking a future-oriented and problem-focused approach to coping (Greenglass &…”
Academic procrastination of undergraduates: Low self-efficacy to self-regulate predicts higher levels of procrastination (2008, methodology): “…to academic procrastination, self-regulation, self-efficacy, and self-esteem have received the most attention (e.g., Cassady & Johnson, 2002; Chu & Choi, 2005; DeRoma et al., 2003; Ferrari, 2001; Haycock, McCarthy, & Skay, 1998; Howell et al., 2006; Senécal, Koestner, & Vallerand, 1995;…”
Correlates of Academic Procrastination and Students’ Grade Goals (2008, background): “Other researchers have explained procrastination as a deficit in self-regulated performance (Chu and Choi 2005; DeRoma et al. 2003).”
How do students self-regulate? Review of Zimmerman"s cyclical model of self-regulated learning (2014, methodology): “The research regarding procrastination demonstrates the different relationship between goals, time management and deadlines (Krause & Freund, 2013), having explored productive ways to use procrastination (Chu & Choi, 2005).”