In surveys conducted in the United States, 40% of respondents state that they have suffered disadvantages in the past due to procrastination, while 25% suffer helplessly from recurring procrastination. Some 70% of students are estimated to procrastinate at times, and 25% of them do so chronically and to a pronounced degree. What do we know about procrastinators? In general, procrastinators are often late, unprepared, and poorly organized, with poor relationships with work colleagues. They spend a lot of time on projects that fail anyway. They get in their own way, avoid making an honest accounting of their working style to themselves, and try instead to burnish their image. They are brusque in their treatment of colleagues who are also procrastinators. Students who procrastinate are most likely to do so with written work and preparing for exams. Their procrastination causes fear and has a negative impact on their quality of life and their grades. |