Procrastination and Task Avoidance: Theory, Research, and TreatmentProcrastination is a fascinating, highly complex human phenomenon for which the time has come for systematic theoretical and therapeutic effort. The present volume reflects this effort. It was a labor of love to read this scholarly, timely book-the first of its kind on the topic. It was especially encouraging to find that its authors are remarkably free of the phenomenon they have been investigating. One might have expected the opposite. It has often been argued that people select topics that trouble them and come to understand their problems better by studying or treating them in others. This does not appear to be true of the procrastination researchers represented in this book. I base this conclusion on two simple observations. First, the work is replete with recent refer ences and the book itself has reached the reader scarcely a year following its completion. Second, when one considers the remarkable pace of pro grammatic research by these contributors during the past decade, it is clear that they are at the healthy end of the procrastination continuum. The fascinating history of the term procrastination is well documented in this book. The term continues to conjure up contrasting, eloquent images-especially for poets. When Edward Young wrote in 1742, "Pro crastination is the Thief of Time," he was condemning the waste of the most precious of human commodities. |
Contents
Clinical Significance of Procrastination | |
Procrastination Research and the Behavioral Tradition | |
Behaviorism andProgrammed Systems of Instruction | |
Neuropsychological and Biological Variables | |
Tuckman Procrastination ScaleTPS | |
Conclusions on Academic Measures | |
Decisional Procrastination DP Scale | |
History of the Perfectionism Construct | |
Procrastination and Perfectionistic Parental Expectancies | |
Study 3 | |
Perfectionism and Procrastination in LowThreat Situations | |
The Negative SelfConcepts of Procrastinators | |
Procrastination Life Stress and Adjustment | |
Toward a Model of Procrastination and Poor PsyChological | |
Chapter 3 | |
The TelAviv Procrastination TAP Inventory | |
Summary and Future research Directions | |
Theoretical Notions Measurement | |
Procrastination and SelfWorth | |
Study 1 | |
Treatment of Academic Procrastination | |
Conclusion | |
Assessing the Relations of Trait Procrastination with Agitation | |
Study 4 | |
A Consideration of Some Other Theoretical Statements | |
Procrastination andthe Avoidanceof Diagnostic Information | |
General Conclusion | |
GeneralTreatment Philosophy Regarding CollegeStudent | |
Modifying Cognitive Distortions andtheAnxious Procrastinator | |
Procrastination | |
Group Treatment | |
Atypical Procrastination | |
Psychodynamic Treatment for Atypical Procrastination | |
Developmental and Educational Research | |
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