Sirois, F. and Giguère, B. (2018) Giving in when feeling less good: Procrastination, action control, and social temptations. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57 (2). pp. 404-427. ISSN 0144-6665
Abstract
Emotion-regulation perspectives on procrastination highlighting the primacy of short-term mood-regulation focus mainly on negative affect. Positive affect, however, has received much less attention, and has not been considered with respect to social temptations. To address this issue we examined how trait procrastination was linked to positive and negative affect in the context of social temptations across two prospective studies. Action Control Theory, Personality Systems Interactions Theory, and a mood-regulation theory of procrastination served as guiding conceptual frameworks. In Study 1, moderated mediation analyses revealed that low positive affect explained the link between trait procrastination and time spent procrastinating on academic tasks over a 48-hour period in a student sample (N = 142), and this effect was moderated by the presence of social temptations. Parallel results for goal enjoyment assessed at Time 2 were found in Study 2 with a community sample (N = 94) attempting to make intended health behaviour changes over a six-month period. Our findings indicate that procrastinators are at risk for disengaging from intended tasks when social temptations are present and positive task-related affect is low.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The British Psychological Society. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in British Journal of Social Psychology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Procrastination; social temptations; positive affect; negative affect; motivation; action control |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2018 15:21 |
Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2020 16:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/bjso.12243 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126516 |