Mohammadi Bytamar Jahangir, Saed Omid, Khakpoor Sahel
Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Front Psychol. 2020 Nov 4;11:524588. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.524588. eCollection 2020.
Academic procrastination as deliberate postponement of academic tasks, despite being aware of its consequences, is a common phenomenon among students. Current conceptualizations of procrastination support the rule of emotion regulation difficulties in the psychopathology of this phenomenon. In this regard, the current study is aimed to investigate the role of difficulty in emotion regulation in academic procrastination.
The present study is a cross-sectional study. Participants were 250 students who completed Tuckman Procrastination Scale (TPS), and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS).
Correlation analyses showed that the TPS has a significant positive association on overall DERS and all but one of the six dimensions (DERS-Awareness) of emotion regulation difficulties ( < 0.01). This association remained significant after controlling for anxiety and depression. Further, the multivariate regression showed that the only DERS dimension that could predict TPS was DERS-Strategies. Finally, individuals with a high level of procrastination reported greater DERS scores than those with a lower level.
Results indicate that difficulty in emotion regulation, especially the ones' believe about his/her ability in regulating unpleasant emotions effectively, is important in procrastination. However, despite the limited association between DERS and TPS, the findings raise some potentially useful implications for procrastination studies and interventions.
学业拖延是指尽管意识到后果却仍故意推迟学业任务，这在学生中是一种常见现象。当前对拖延的概念化支持了情绪调节困难在这一现象心理病理学中的作用。在这方面，本研究旨在探讨情绪调节困难在学业拖延中的作用。
本研究为横断面研究。参与者为250名学生，他们完成了塔克曼拖延量表（TPS）和情绪调节困难量表（DERS）。
相关性分析表明，TPS与DERS总分以及情绪调节困难的六个维度中除一个维度（DERS-意识）外的所有维度均呈显著正相关（<0.01）。在控制焦虑和抑郁后，这种关联仍然显著。此外，多元回归显示，唯一能预测TPS的DERS维度是DERS-策略。最后，拖延程度高的个体报告的DERS得分高于拖延程度低的个体。
结果表明，情绪调节困难，尤其是个体对自己有效调节不愉快情绪能力的信念，在拖延中很重要。然而，尽管DERS与TPS之间的关联有限，但这些发现对拖延研究和干预提出了一些潜在有用的启示。
