Decisional procrastination of school-to-work transition: Personality correlates of career indecision

Abstract

Procrastination as putting off until tomorrow what one had intended to do today is well-known tendency in everyday life. In an attempt to understand the character of procrastination in different life-domains, a large body of research has been accumulated over the last decades. This article was aimed to evaluate a specific decisional procrastination of school-to-work transition (SWT) that is treated as maturity postponement. Two studies are reported examining SWT procrastination defined as career indecision among Polish students graduating universities. In Study 1 (N=366), attitudinal and identity statuses were analyzed as correlates of career procrastination. A path analysis conducted for the model, which was aimed to explain the influence of career self-efficacy and occupational commitment on career indecision (dependent variable), revealed its very good fitness (RMSEA=.000). Those two independent variables explain 10% of career indecision variance. Stepwise multiple regression analyses conducted to ascertain relationship of five identity statuses (Brzezińska, Piotrowski, 2010) to procrastination measure (career indecision) showed that Commitment Making and Ruminative Exploration are strongest predictor variables. In study 2 (N=157), the stepwise multiple regression analyses conducted to ascertain the independent relationship of each of Big Five personality factor revealed that Neuroticism and Extraversion accounts of the most of explained variance of school-to-work transition procrastination.

Anadolu Lisesi Öğrencilerinin Mesleki Kararsızlıklarının Akademik Erteleme ve Çeşitli Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi

“…Research results have shown that decision-making difficulty leads to academic procrastination (Eerde, 2003;Uzun Özer, 2009). It is also noted that individuals who show academic procrastination also delay decision making (Bańka & Hauziński, 2015;Ferrari et al, 1995;Ferrari, Crum, & Pardo, 2018). As stated by previous research results, there is a connection between decision-making styles and procrastination (Balkıs, 2007;Uğurlu, 2013).…”

“…Studies show that indecisive individuals exhibit defensive and avoidant approaches and, therefore, procrastinate (Deveci, 2011;Gati, Krausz & Osipow, 1996). In studies that address indecision and procrastination together, it has been shown that these two concepts are strongly correlated (Bańka & Hauziński, 2015;Lauderdale, 2017;Lauderdale, Martin, & Moore 2019).…”

The driving force of action and the psychology of doing nothing

“…The first one as developmental procrastination is a rational path that prepares for a new equilibrium and driving force; however, the second one is a destructive form of petrification -negative pathological identity in doing nothing a . A partial analogy takes place here with functional and dysfunctional procrastination with one important difference -despite procrastination correlating with certain personality traits (Millgram, Tenne, 2000;Bańka, Hauziński 2014), contrary to indecisiveness it is never a personality trait in itself. Indecisiveness as a pathological trait and personality (Rassin, et al 2007) permanently prevents making tough decisions by an individual in challenging life aspects like business, work, educa-tion, accommodation or marriage regardless whether an individual is under considerable stress or not.…”

İş Güvencesi̇zli̇ği̇ İle İşyeri̇ Prokrasti̇nasyonu (Erteleme Alişkanliği) İli̇şki̇si̇

“…Daha sonra Milgram ve Tenne (2000) söz konusu prokrastinasyon çeşitlerini davranışsal ve kararsal prokrastinasyon olmak üzere ikiye indirgemişlerdir (Ilyin, 2011;Klimova, 2014: 288;Kovylin, 2013: 27). Davranışsal prokrastinasyon gerçekleştirilmesi gereken/beklenen faaliyet/görevlerin ertelenmesini ifade ederken, kararsal prokrastinasyon belirli faaliyet/görevlerin gerçekleştirilip gerçekleştirilmeyeceğine dair karar alma süreçlerini ertelemeyi açıklar (Bańka & Hauziński, 2015;Fernie vd., 2009;Sadykova, 2016).…”