“I’ll work out tomorrow”: The Procrastination in Exercise Scale

Kelly, Scout M; Walton, Hayley R

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“…Research over the past two decades has documented that procrastination can also have wide-ranging and negative consequences for health and well-being [ 3 ], especially when it becomes a chronic behavioural pattern. For example, procrastination is associated with higher stress [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ], use of less adaptive coping strategies [ 10 ], poor health behaviours [ 5 , 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 ], poor quality sleep [ 14 , 15 ], poor self-rated health [ 16 ], and a greater number of physical illnesses and symptoms [ 6 , 9 , 12 , 17 ].…”

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Procrastination and Stress: A Conceptual Review of Why Context Matters

Sirois

2023

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Research over the past two decades has continued to highlight the robust associations between procrastination and stress across multiple populations and contexts. Despite this burgeoning evidence base and theory linking procrastination to higher levels of stress, as well as the reverse, the role of context in this potentially dynamic association has received relatively little attention. In this conceptual review I argue that from a mood regulation perspective of procrastination, stressful contexts necessarily increase risk for procrastination because they deplete coping resources and lower the threshold for tolerating negative emotions. Drawing on insights from coping and emotion regulation theory, the new stress context vulnerability model of procrastination proposes that the risk for procrastination increases in stressful contexts primarily because procrastination is a low-resource means of avoiding aversive and difficult task-related emotions. The new model is then applied to evidence on the primary and secondary sources of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they may have increased vulnerability for procrastination. After discussing potential applications of the new model for understanding how and why risk for procrastination may increase in other stressful contexts, approaches that might mitigate vulnerability for procrastination in high-stress contexts are discussed. Overall, this new stress context vulnerability model underscores the need for taking a more compassionate view of the antecedents and factors that may increase the risk for procrastination.

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“…Procrastination, referred to an irrational delay of intended actions, is a widespread problem that hinders our work process (Metin et al, 2018), academic achievement (Balkis, 2013), and pursuit of a healthy lifestyle (Kelly & Walton, 2021). As a survey showed, 65% of adult respondents reported high procrastination in at least one life domain like career, education, health, or finance, and 25% of respondents procrastinated in four or more life-domains (Hen & Goroshit, 2018).…”

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Stimulation of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex enhances willingness for task completion by amplifying task outcome value.

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Procrastination, an irrational delay of intended action, has caused harms in many life domains. Although procrastination has a robust link with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), the causal role of DLPFC in this behavior remains unclear. A recent temporal decision model (TDM) proposed that people pit task aversiveness against outcome value to decide to procrastinate or not. In short, people would procrastinate if task aversiveness has a stronger effect than outcome value. According to the TDM, the DLPFC might reduce procrastination by inhibiting task aversiveness, or amplifying outcome value, or both. The present study tested those possibilities by investigating whether brain stimulation on DLPFC changes procrastination and its underlying mechanism. One hundred and three participants with high procrastination were randomly assigned to receive either active or sham stimulation over the left (active, n = 27; sham, n = 27) or right (active, n = 25; sham, n = 24) DLPFC and rated task aversiveness, outcome value and task-execution willingness toward their self-planned real-life tasks before and after stimulation. We found that active stimulation of the left DLPFC significantly boosted task-execution willingness. This left DLPFC stimulation also changed subjects' evaluation of tasks such that decreasing task aversiveness and increasing outcome value. Causal mediation analyses further revealed that stimulation of the left DLPFC enhances willingness for task completion through increasing outcome value. Overall these results provide the first evidence that neuromodulation of the left DLPFC could improve timely task-execution willingness via increasing the outcome value, which offers new insights for treating individuals with severe or even pathological procrastination.

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“…Some studies have already shown this (negative) impact of procrastination on health-promoting behaviour, e.g. going to bed on time (Kroese et al, 2014(Kroese et al, , 2016Rapoport et al, 2023) or exercise regularly (Kelly & Walton 2021;Klingsieck & Weigelt, 2016;Rapoport et al, 2022). It has been shown that high procrastinators exercise less than they intended to, sleep less, do not keep to their scheduled bedtimes, and generally report more health problems.…”

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“…For this reason, special questionnaires were developed in these areas to assess domainspecific procrastination. In the area of bedtime procrastination, there is the Bedtime Procrastination Scale by Kroese et al (2014), and for sports, there are the questionnaires by Klingsieck and Weigelt (2016) and by Kelly and Walton (2021). Haghbin and Pychyl (2016) also developed the Exercise and Healthy Diet Procrastination Scales.…”

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"Can I please postpone my dentist appointment?" - Exploring a new area of procrastination

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It is known that both procrastination and self-compassion are associated with health behaviours in the sense that the former reduces them and the latter increases them. It is also known that regular visits to the doctor and especially to the dentist are part of a healthy lifestyle. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of procrastination and self-compassion on dental attendance. For this purpose, a new questionnaire was designed and confirmed by means of an explorative factor analysis. The results show that procrastination has an influence on dental attendance, even when the influence of dental anxiety is excluded. No conclusion can be drawn about the influence of self-compassion on dental attendance.These results open up a new area in which procrastination plays an important role and which has been neglected until now. The study emphasises the importance of further research into procrastination behaviour in the health area, in order to be able to minimise it in the long term.

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“I’ll work out tomorrow”: The Procrastination in Exercise Scale

Cited by 17 publications

References 44 publications

Procrastination and Stress: A Conceptual Review of Why Context Matters

Procrastination and Stress: A Conceptual Review of Why Context Matters

Stimulation of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex enhances willingness for task completion by amplifying task outcome value.

"Can I please postpone my dentist appointment?" - Exploring a new area of procrastination

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