How Adaptive Is Active Procrastination? Differential Relations to Beliefs and Behaviors in College Anatomy

• In Event: 52.079 - Procrastination and Calibration: Factors Impacting College Students' Self-Regulated Learning

Abstract

This study examined passive and active procrastination among undergraduate anatomy students in terms of background variables, motivational beliefs (i.e., speed of knowledge acquisition, self-efficacy, and task value), and grades. Factor analysis revealed three discrete factors of active procrastination, one of which was closely tied to passive procrastination and behavioral procrastination. Analyses indicated relations to motivational beliefs and grades were markedly different for, on the one hand, two factors of active procrastination (positive relations) and, on the other hand, passive procrastination and the third factor of active procrastination (negative relations). Results imply that the dimensions of active procrastination that appear adaptive for learning may not reflect behavioral procrastination, whereas the dimension of active procrastination that involves behavioral procrastination lacks adaptive associations.

Author

• Lauren C. Hensley, The Ohio State University