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The General Procrastination Scale (For student populations) is a 20-item measure of general procrastination. Procrastination is defined as "the tendency to postpone that which is necessary to reach some goal."
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The Lay’s General Procrastination Scale (For student populations) is a 5 point Likert scale, consisting of 20 items, wherein for each item, response alternatives range from extremely uncharacteristic to extremely characteristic.
Participants rate their agreement with each item on the 5-point Likert scale according to the following order:
1 = Extremely Uncharacteristic
2 = Moderately Uncharacteristic
3 = Neutral
4 = Moderately Characteristic
5 = Extremely Characteristic
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Procrastination
The purpose of the evaluation is to:
Self-administered
Positive psychology
Questionnaire
Student
10 to 15 minutes
As is true of any self-report instrument, respondents can consciously distort their response to the scale if they are motivated to do so.
Procrastination was positively related to measures of disorganization and independent of need-achievement, energy level, and self-esteem. High scorers on the procrastination scale were more likely to return their completed inventory late. Procrastination was unrelated to grade-point average.
Lay, C. H. (1986). At last, my research article on procrastination. Journal of Research in Personality, 20(4), 474–495.