Procrastination, Affective State, Rumination, and Sleep Quality: Investigating Reciprocal Effects with Ambulatory Assessment

Gort, Cassandra; Marcusson-Clavertz, David; Kuehner, Christine

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“…Based on the accumulated findings reported here, we hypothesize (H2) that bedtime procrastination also mediates the effect of IA on poor sleep quality. Stainton, Lay, and Flett (2000) argued that rumination is an important factor affecting procrastination behavior, which has been supported by many investigations (e.g., Constantin, English, & Mazmanian, 2018;Gort, Marcusson-Clavertz, & Kuehner, 2020;Rebetez, Rochat, Barsics, & Van der, 2018). Studies have also found that rumination can significantly predict procrastination; as when levels of rumination increase so do procrastinating behaviors (Flett, Haghbin, & Pychyl, 2016).…”

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Mediating effects of rumination and bedtime procrastination on the relationship between Internet addiction and poor sleep quality

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Background and aimsNumerous studies have shown that people who have Internet addiction (IA) are more likely to experience poor sleep quality than people who do not. However, few studies have explored mechanisms underlying the relation between IA and poor sleep quality. As a first attempt to address this knowledge gap, a cross-sectional design was applied, and structural equation modeling was used to explore the direct relationship between IA and poor sleep quality, as well as the potential mediating roles of rumination and bedtime procrastination.MethodsA convenience sample, consisting of 1,104 Chinese University students (696 females or 63%), completed an online survey that included the following measures: Young’s 8-item Internet Addiction Diagnosis Questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Ruminative Responses Scale, and the Bedtime Procrastination Scale.ResultsWhile the direct path between IA and poor sleep quality was not found to be significant, rumination and bedtime procrastination were each shown to separately mediate the predictive effect of IA on poor sleep quality. However, the greatest level of support was found for the sequential mediating effects of rumination and bedtime procrastination between IA and poor sleep quality.ConclusionWhile rumination and bedtime procrastination were both shown to be important independent mediators for the relation between IA and poor sleep quality, their combined effect was as great as either alone.

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“…We capitalized some words to make it easier for participants to quickly discriminate between items as the Pro-diary display is small and shows each question as a scrolling text. The German study appended two questions concerning rumination and procrastination at the end of the questionnaire (Gort et al, 2021). Mind wandering was primarily operationalized as any thought that was both task-unrelated and stimulus-independent (i.e., SITUTs; Stawarczyk et al, 2011), but we also examined mind wandering one-dimensionally as TUTs or SITs, respectively (see Table 2, questions 1 & 2).…”

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“…2 Data were collected at Lund University (Lund, Sweden) and the Central Institute of Mental Health (Mannheim, Germany) from November 2017 to October 2019. Some of the German data, relating procrastination and rumination to sleep and affect, has already been published (Gort et al, 2021), but the data reported in this paper are original.…”

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“…The pro-diary device also included data from an accelerometer and self-initiated morning and evening questionnaires about sleep. The Mannheim sample also included two experience sampling questions on procrastination (Gort et al, 2021). We also measured neuroticism, openness, dissociative tendencies, and physical activity with self-report questionnaires; these measures will be reported in a separate paper.…”

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The contribution of latent factors of executive functioning to mind wandering: an experience sampling study

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Accumulating evidence suggests that individuals with greater executive resources spend less time mind wandering. Independent strands of research further suggest that this association depends on concentration and a guilty-dysphoric daydreaming style. However, it remains unclear whether this association is specific to particular features of executive functioning or certain operationalizations of mind wandering, including task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs, comprising external distractions and mind wandering) and stimulus-independent and task-unrelated thoughts (SITUTs, comprising mind wandering only). This study sought to clarify these associations by using confirmatory factor analysis to compute latent scores for distinct executive functions based on nine cognitive tasks and relating them to experience sampling reports of mind wandering. We expected that individuals with greater executive control (specifically updating) would show a stronger reduction in SITUTs as momentary concentration and guilty-dysphoric style increase. A bifactor model of the cognitive battery indicated a general factor (common executive functioning) and ancillary factors (updating and shifting). A significant interaction between updating and concentration on mind wandering was observed with mind wandering defined as TUTs, but not as SITUTs (N = 187). A post hoc analysis clarified this discrepancy by showing that as concentration increases, both external distractions and mind wandering decrease more strongly among people with greater updating. Moreover, common executive functioning predicted a more negative slope of guilty-dysphoric style on SITUTs, whereas updating and shifting predicted more positive slopes. The opposite slopes of these executive functions on daily life mind wandering may reflect a stability-flexibility trade-off between goal maintenance and goal replacement abilities.

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“…More recently, scholars begin to shift their attention from the between-person effects to within-person effects of daily procrastination on those transitory sleep problems (e.g., poor day-specific sleep quality). For example, Gort et al (2021) expected that higher levels of daily procrastination would relate to poorer sleep quality in the following night. However, this hypothesis is not empirically supported by their data.…”

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Procrastinate at work, sleep badly at night: How job autonomy matters

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Despite the well‐documented deleterious effects of poor sleep quality on procrastination, limited efforts have been devoted to examining whether procrastination can hurt sleep quality. To address this theoretical gap, this study aims to reveal how and when individuals' procrastination at work influences their subsequent sleep quality. Building upon cognitive appraisal theory, the current research employs experience‐sampling methodology to investigate mediators of rumination (as a cognitive pathway) and negative affect (as an affective pathway), explaining within‐person fluctuations in sleep quality resulting from daily procrastination. Furthermore, job autonomy is proposed to be a cross‐level moderator in the relationship between daily procrastination and rumination/negative affect. The results of 2026 daily data records from 213 employees across 10 consecutive workdays supported the mediation effect of rumination and moderation effects of job autonomy but did not support the mediation effect of negative affect. Specifically, daily procrastination was negatively related to subsequent sleep quality through the cognitive pathway of rumination. Our results also reveal that the positive relationships between daily procrastination and rumination/negative affect were stronger for employees with higher levels of job autonomy. Finally, we discuss the implications and limitations of this paper as well as future directions.

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Procrastination, Affective State, Rumination, and Sleep Quality: Investigating Reciprocal Effects with Ambulatory Assessment

Cited by 19 publications

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Mediating effects of rumination and bedtime procrastination on the relationship between Internet addiction and poor sleep quality

Mediating effects of rumination and bedtime procrastination on the relationship between Internet addiction and poor sleep quality

The contribution of latent factors of executive functioning to mind wandering: an experience sampling study

Procrastinate at work, sleep badly at night: How job autonomy matters

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