How conscientiousness and neuroticism affect academic procrastination. Mediated by motivational regulation?

Autor/inn/en	Bäulke, Lisa; Daumiller, Martin; Dresel, Markus
Titel	How conscientiousness and neuroticism affect academic procrastination. Mediated by motivational regulation?
Quelle	In: Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie, 51 (2019) 4, S. 216-227Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-8637; 2190-6262
DOI	10.1026/0049-8637/a000225
Schlagwörter	Einstellung (Psy); Neurotizismus; Vermeiden; Lernen; Lerntagebuch; Messverfahren; Genauigkeit; Studienanfänger
Abstract	We examined students' procrastinatory behavior in a specific higher-education learning situation in relation to conscientiousness and neuroticism as well as motivational regulation. We hypothesized that conscientiousness would be associated with low levels and favorable trajectories of academic procrastinatory behavior, and neuroticism would be associated with high levels and unfavorable trajectories of procrastinatory behavior. Furthermore, we examined whether motivational regulation mediates these effects. To answer our research questions, we used data from a diary study that spanned a period of 28 days with a total of 3,121 single measurements of 128 university students (mean age = 21.7 years; SD = 2.2; 53 % female). The results of conditional growth curve models indicated that levels of procrastinatory behavior were negatively linked to conscientiousness and positively linked to neuroticism. Motivational regulation mediated the relation between conscientiousness and procrastinatory behavior. No effects on the trajectories of procrastinatory behavior were found. Our findings provide insights into procrastinatory behavior in a specific learning situation and emphasize the functional effects of motivational regulation on academic procrastination. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2021/4