Abstract
The relationship between individual differences in construal level and self-control, including procrastination was investigated by examining the following hypotheses. 1) People with high level of construal would procrastinate less when learning a task than those with low level of construal; and 2) theories of intelligence would moderate the effect of construal level on procrastination. These hypotheses were tested by using survey data. Results indicated that people with a low construal level procrastinated more. Results also indicated the moderating role of intelligence theories on the relationship between Behavior Identification Form (BIF) score and procrastination. This study is expected to expand our understanding of construal level theory and individual differences. The findings are also expected to clarify the relationship between construal level and procrastination.
Highlights
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between individual differences in construal level and self-control, including procrastination, as well as to examine the moderating role of the belief in a particular theory of intelligence on the relationship between construal level and procrastination.Each of us has procrastinated at least once, which includes not completing a task before a deadline, leaving a task behind, or avoiding facing a task until the deadline
The construal-level theory (CLT) is based on psychological distance and suggests that increased psychological distance is associated with more abstract, higher-level construal, because the greater the psychological distance, the sparser would be concrete information, which results in an increased number of abstract construal (Fiedler, Jung, Wänke, & Alexopoulos, 2012; Liberman & Trope, 1998; Trope & Liberman, 2010)
Nor were theories of intelligence significantly associated with procrastination
Summary
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between individual differences in construal level and self-control, including procrastination, as well as to examine the moderating role of the belief in a particular theory of intelligence on the relationship between construal level and procrastination.Each of us has procrastinated at least once, which includes not completing a task before a deadline, leaving a task behind, or avoiding facing a task until the deadline. The relationship between procrastination and construal level has been previously investigated Liberman, Trope, McCrea, & Sherman (2007) reported that higher-level construal, such as describing things in the abstract (rather than concretely), considering why (rather than how), and first indicating traits implied by an activity, foster a perception of more distal time. McCrea et al (2008), based on mental associations between the level of abstractness and temporal distance suggested that individuals responding to a questionnaire were less likely to procrastinate when performing the task, if the questionnaire induced a more concrete construal. Results opposed to those reported by McCrea et al (2008) could be predicted from the perspective of construal level and self-control
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