Department of Psychology, Wichita State University.
Department of Psychological Sciences, Kansas State University.
Psychol Sci. 2020 Mar;31(3):306-315. doi: 10.1177/0956797619901267. Epub 2020 Feb 26.
Standard approaches for identifying task-completion strategies, such as precrastination and procrastination, reduce behavior to single markers that oversimplify the process of task completion. To illustrate this point, we consider three task-completion strategies and introduce a new method to identify their use. This approach was tested using an archival data set (N = 8,655) of the available electronic records of research participation at Kansas State University. The approach outperformed standard diagnostic approaches and yielded an interesting finding: Several strategies were associated with negative outcomes. Specifically, both procrastinators and precrastinators struggled to finish tasks on time. Together, these findings underscore the importance of using holistic approaches to determine the relationship among task characteristics, individual differences, and task completion.
标准的识别任务完成策略的方法，如预先拖延和拖延，将行为简化为单一的标记，从而简化任务完成的过程。为了说明这一点，我们考虑了三种任务完成策略，并引入了一种新的方法来识别它们的使用。该方法使用堪萨斯州立大学研究参与的现有电子记录的档案数据集（N=8655）进行了测试。该方法优于标准诊断方法，并得出了一个有趣的发现：几种策略与负面结果相关。具体来说，拖延者和预先拖延者都难以按时完成任务。总的来说，这些发现强调了使用整体方法来确定任务特征、个体差异和任务完成之间关系的重要性。
