Prevalence of Procrastination in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia: Arousal and Avoidance Delays among Adults.

By Joseph R. Ferrari, Jean O'callaghan, Ian Newbegin. 2005

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• Academic procrastination of undergraduates: Low self-efficacy to self-regulate predicts higher levels of procrastination (2008, background): “…is related to lower levels of self-regulation, academic self-efficacy, and self-esteem, and is associated with higher levels of anxiety, stress, and illness (e.g., Ferrari et al., 2005; Howell, Watson, Powell, & Buro, 2006; Schraw, Wadkins, & Olafson, 2007; Tice & Baumeister, 1997; Wolters, 2003).”
• Flexibility in the Gig Economy: Managing Time on Three Online Piecework Platforms (2018, unknown): “Surveys suggest that procrastination is extremely common (Ferrari et al. 2005).”
• Time Perspective and Procrastination in the Workplace: An Empirical Investigation (2012, background): “…other researchers have found the scale to have a single factor structure, acceptable temporal stability, and predictive validity (Ferrari, 1992; Ferrari and Emmons, 1995; Ferrari et al. 2005; Ferrari and Tice, 2000; Flett et al. 1992; Kusyszyn, 1990; Lay, 1987; Lay, 1988; Van Eerde, 2003).”
• “I’ll do it later”: Type of motivation, self-efficacy and homework procrastination (2013, background): “Procrastination has been found to result in lower achievement (Tice and Baumeister 1997; Wesley 1994), higher levels of stress, and higher levels of anxiety (Ferrari et al. 2005; Sirois 2004).”
• When Putting Work Off Pays Off: The Curvilinear Relationship between Procrastination and Creativity (2020, unknown): “People are constantly putting things off (Ferrari, 2001; Ferrari, O ’ Callaghan, & Newbegin, 2005; Steel, 2007).”
• Correlates of Academic Procrastination and Students’ Grade Goals (2008, background): “…in adults and undergraduates across academic and nonacademic contexts, and across individuals in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia (Ferrari et al. 2005; Ferrari and Scher 2000; Lee 2005), there is surprisingly little research exploring this subject in an Asian context.”
• Academic procrastination and motivation of adolescents in Turkey (2009, background): “…failure of self-regulation, and is associated with low levels of academic self-efficacy and self-esteem, and with high levels of anxiety, stress, and illness (e.g., Ferrari et al., 2005; Howell, Watson, Powell, & Buro, 2006; Schraw, Wadkins, & Olafson, 2007; Tice & Baumeister, 1997; Wolters, 2003).”