Social comparisons by procrastinators: rating peers with similar or dissimilar delay tendencies

Ferrari, Joseph R.; Patel, Tina

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.02.006

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“…Although not focusing on team procrastination, previous research did examine individual procrastination in social contexts. For example, based on scenario studies, Ferrari (1992) and Ferrari and Patel (2004) found that procrastinators negatively evaluate other people’s procrastinating behavior and that they would allocate fewer resources to a procrastinating peer. Importantly, this research suggests that procrastination does occur in social contexts.…”

Section: Team Procrastinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

When Teams Fail to Self-Regulate: Predictors and Outcomes of Team Procrastination Among Debating Teams

Hooft

Mierlo

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Models of team development have indicated that teams typically engage in task delay during the first stages of the team’s life cycle. An important question is to what extent this equally applies to all teams, or whether there is variation across teams in the amount of task delay. The present study introduces the concept of team procrastination as a lens through which we can examine whether teams collectively engage in unplanned, voluntary, and irrational delay of team tasks. Based on theory and research on self-regulation, team processes, and team motivation we developed a conceptual multilevel model of predictors and outcomes of team procrastination. In a sample of 209 student debating teams, we investigated whether and why teams engage in collective procrastination as a team, and what consequences team procrastination has in terms of team member well-being and team performance. The results supported the existence of team procrastination as a team-level construct that has some stability over time. The teams’ composition in terms of individual-level trait procrastination, as well as the teams’ motivational states (i.e., team learning goal orientation, team performance-approach goal orientation in interaction with team efficacy) predicted team procrastination. Team procrastination related positively to team members’ stress levels, especially for those low on trait procrastination. Furthermore, team procrastination had an indirect negative relationship with team performance, through teams’ collective stress levels. These findings add to the theoretical understanding of self-regulatory processes of teams, and highlight the practical importance of paying attention to team-level states and processes such as team goal orientation and team procrastination.

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Section: Team Procrastinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

When Teams Fail to Self-Regulate: Predictors and Outcomes of Team Procrastination Among Debating Teams

Hooft

Mierlo

2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…Consequently, they put off doing tasks until the last possible second for attributions of low effort over low ability, reminiscent of self-handicapping (Berglas & Jones, 1978;Ferrari & Tice, 2000). This avoidant behavior leads to losses in financial (McCown, Johnson, & Petzel, 1989), academic (Klassen, Krawchuk, & Rajani, 2008), health (Tice & Baumeister, 1997) social domains (Ferrari & Patel, 2004;Klingsieck, 2013), which further may reinforce chronic procrastinators' negative beliefs about their own abilities. The vicious cycle seems to perpetuate avoidance, which may prevent individuals from leading a happy life.…”

Section: Procrastinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The portrait of the procrastinator: Risk factors and results of an indecisive personality

Tibbett

Ferrari

2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Nowadays this tendency is well known and has been established to be a chronic problem for more than half of post-secondary students (Schouwenburg, 2004;Steel, 2007). Since 1980, when the study of the construct began, academic procrastination has been connected with many other individual features, such as poor use of metacognitive strategies (Howell & Watson, 2007), academic cheating (Ferrari et al, 1998), lower grades (Moon & Illingworth, 2005), higher intention-gap dissonance (Dewitte & Lens, 2000), lower intrinsic learning motivation (Schouwenburg & Groenewoud, 2001), lower levels of selfefficacy and self-regulation when learning , and higher fear to failure in academic settings (Ferrari & Patel, 2004), to mention only some of the most relevant.…”

Section: Academic Procrastinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Continuous assessment in a large group of psychology undergraduates

Clariana¹,

Gotzens²,

Badia³

2017

EJREP

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Social comparisons by procrastinators: rating peers with similar or dissimilar delay tendencies

Cited by 30 publications

References 21 publications

When Teams Fail to Self-Regulate: Predictors and Outcomes of Team Procrastination Among Debating Teams

When Teams Fail to Self-Regulate: Predictors and Outcomes of Team Procrastination Among Debating Teams

The portrait of the procrastinator: Risk factors and results of an indecisive personality

Continuous assessment in a large group of psychology undergraduates

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