Abstract
AbstractDespite a growing body of research on the consequences of procrastination for health and well-being, there is little research focused on testing or explaining the potential links between procrastination and sleep quality. Using the procrastination–health model as our guiding conceptual lens, we addressed this gap by examining how and why trait procrastination may be linked to various dimensions of sleep quality across two student samples. In Study 1, procrastination was associated with feeling unrested, but not with sleep disturbance frequency, in a sample of Greek undergraduate students (N = 141). In Study 2, bootstrapping analysis of the indirect effects of procrastination on an index of sleep quality through perceived stress in a sample of Canadian students (N = 339) was significant, supporting an extended procrastination–health model view of how chronic self-regulation failure may compromise sleep quality. Given the potential for dynamic and reciprocal relations among procrastination, stress, ...
Highlights
Nothing [is] so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. (William James)The common sense relected in James’ assertion highlights an important but understudied topic within the procrastination literature
We propose that the veracity of this statement may be best understood from the lens of the procrastination–health model (Sirois, 2007; Sirois et al, 2003)
Correlational analysis revealed that trait procrastination was unrelated to the frequency of sleep disturbances (r = .04, ns), but was signiicantly associated with frequently feeling bad upon waking (r = .19, p < .05)
Summary
Nothing [is] so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. (William James)The common sense relected in James’ assertion highlights an important but understudied topic within the procrastination literature. Recent work has highlighted how a domain-speciic form of procrastination, “bedtime procrastination”—putting of going to sleep at the intended time—can contribute to insuicient sleep (Kroese, De Ridder, Evers, & Adriaanse, 2014) Aside from this speciic form of procrastination, there is little, if any, research on the role of trait procrastination in how well people sleep. Theoretical perspectives of the procrastination–health relationship implicate stress as an explanatory factor for understanding why procrastination confers risk for poor health-related outcomes (Sirois, 2007; Sirois et al, 2003) If we view this model as including poor sleep and fatigue as likely health-related outcomes of the stress from the habitual delay of important and intended tasks, it is reasonable to expect that James’ insight into procrastination relects an important truth. The purpose of the current research was to test this hypothesis
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