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- Title
State anxiety reduces procrastinating behavior.
- Authors
Xu, Ping; González-Vallejo, Claudia; Xiong, Zhe
- Abstract
Three experiments conducted in China and the US investigated the impact of state anxiety on behavioral procrastination. Participants were induced into a high- or a low-anxiety state and then given a period of 12 min either to practice for an upcoming test or entertain themselves (e.g., watch videos). The results showed that participants in a high-anxiety state spent more time practicing for the upcoming test than participants in a low-anxiety state. Impulsivity and trait procrastination were also measured. Impulsivity was found to be positively correlated with both trait procrastination and dilatory behavior. Overall the findings support a self-regulatory theory account such that the negative emotion associated with anxiety motivates people to increase the effort towards reaching a goal and take proactive measures for the most important task, thus reducing procrastination.
- Subjects
PROCRASTINATION; ANXIETY; SELF regulation; EMOTIONS; MOTIVATION (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Motivation & Emotion, 2016, Vol 40, Issue 4, p625
- ISSN
0146-7239
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11031-016-9554-x