In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing
more urgent actions with tasks less urgent, or doing something from
which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off impending tasks to a
later time. In accordance with Freud, the pleasure principle
may be responsible for procrastination; humans prefer avoiding negative
emotions, and delaying a stressful task. The concept that humans work
best under pressure provides additional enjoyment and motivation to
postponing a task. Some psychologists cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.
Other psychologists indicate that anxiety is just as likely to get
people to start working early as late and the focus should be impulsiveness. That is, anxiety will cause people to delay only if they are impulsive.
Schraw, Wadkins, and Olafson have proposed three criteria for a
behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be
counterproductive, needless, and delaying.
Similarly, Steel (2007) reviews all previous attempts to define
procrastination, indicating it is "to voluntarily delay an intended
course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay."
Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity,
as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or
commitments. These feelings combined may promote further
procrastination. While it is regarded as normal
for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when
it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of
an underlying psychological disorder. Such procrastinators may have difficulty seeking support due to social stigma and the belief that task-aversion is caused by laziness, low willpower or low ambition. On the other hand many regard procrastination as a useful way of
identifying what is important to us personally as it is rare to
procrastinate when one truly values the task at hand.
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