Examining ‘active’ procrastination from a self-regulated learning perspective
@article{Cao2012ExaminingP,
title={Examining ‘active’ procrastination from a self-regulated learning perspective},
author={Li Cao},
journal={Educational Psychology},
year={2012},
volume={32},
pages={515 - 545},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143588803}
}This study examined the notion that active procrastinators are a positive type of procrastinators who possess desirable characteristics similar to non-procrastinators, but different from the traditional passive procrastinators. A two-step procedure was followed to categorise university students (N = 125) as active procrastinators, passive procrastinators and non-procrastinators. The results show that active procrastination was related mostly with the maladaptive motivational and behavioural…
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