Time orientation & procrastination L5

Question 1

What is procrastination?

Answer 1

the delay of an intended and important task even in the light that offput of the task will have negative impacts

Question 2

When do we procrastinate?

Answer 2

When a task is aversive, boring, repetitive, lacking meaning. prioritises short term mood over long term goal

Question 3

what is temporal extension?

Answer 3

offloading a task from present self to future self.

Question 4

Describe Sirosis ‘out of sight out of mind’ paper.

Answer 4

Sirosis - did a meta-analysis of literature looking at procrastination and future time orientation. found a medium-strong negative relationship between procrastination and time orientation.

Question 5

Describe Sirosis et al

Answer 5

Sirosis - Measured self-continuity and procrastination. found a weak correlation between the two (r=-0.24).

Question 6

Describe sirosis et al

Answer 6

Sirosis - wanted to see whether emotional closeness was linked to procrastination. found those who procrastinate were less emotionally close to their future self.

Question 7

Discribe Sirosis et al

Answer 7

Sirosis - found that when people thought of their future selfs health in either a success or failure scenario due to engaging in a prescribed health behaviour they increased their health-related behaviour motivations

Question 8

Describe the three pathways which link procrastination to health

Answer 8

Higher stress
Lower health behaviour
Treatment delay