Why Not Procrastinate? Development and Validation of a New Active Procrastination Scale

摘要

Procrastination has been studied as a dysfunctional, self-effacing behaviorthat ultimately results in undesirable outcomes. However, A. H. C. Chu and J. N. Choi(2005) found a different form of procrastination (i.e., active procrastination) that leads todesirable outcomes. The construct of active procrastination has a high potential to expandthe time management literature and is likely to be adopted by researchers in multiple areasof psychology. To facilitate the research on this new construct and its further integrationinto the literature, the authors developed and validated a new, expanded measure of activeprocrastination that reliably assesses its four dimensions. Using this new measure of activeprocrastination, they further examined its nomological network. The new 16-item measureis a critical step toward further empirical investigation of active procrastination.