Overcoming Procrastination: Time Pressure and Positive Affect as Compensatory Routes to Action

Autor(en)

Jana Kühnel, Ronald Bledow, Angela Kuonath

Abstrakt

The current work seeks to identify factors that support action initiation from the theoretical lens of self-regulation. Specifically, we focus on factors that reduce procrastination, the delay of the initiation or completion of activities. We draw from action control theory and propose that positive affect operates as a personal and time pressure as a situational factor that unblock routes to action. High positive affect makes people less prone to procrastination because positive affect reduces behavioral inhibition and facilitates the enactment of intentions. By contrast, when positive affect is low, people depend on time pressure as an action facilitating stimulus. We present results of a daily diary study with 108 participants that support our hypotheses. We replicate the findings in the context of work in a second daily diary study with 154 employees. We discuss benefits and drawbacks of the enactment of intentions under time pressure and implications of the results for how to reduce procrastination.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Singapore Management University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Journal

Journal of Business and Psychology

Band

38

Seiten

803-819

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

0889-3268

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09817-z

Publikationsdatum

06-2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501003 Arbeitspsychologie, 501002 Angewandte Psychologie, 501004 Differentielle Psychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Psychology(all), Business, Management and Accounting(all), Business and International Management, Applied Psychology

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/overcoming-procrastination-time-pressure-and-positive-affect-as-compensatory-routes-to-action(16cdcfaf-825d-4841-9478-0d124085fad9).html