Goal-Setting Training and Self-Regulation: A Treatment for Procrastination
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2013-07-19
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Negative references to procrastination can be found as far back as 800 BC, and one in five adults today identify themself as a chronic procrastinator. The purpose of this thesis is to develop and deliver a treatment for procrastination. Literature on motivation, goal-setting and self-regulation is reviewed to develop a computer-based procrastination treatment that incorporates principles from the literature. The treatment is tested with undergraduate participants who keep journals of intentions to study versus the time actually spent studying. The treatment reduces the participant’s intention-action gap, but with less efficacy than the individual exercises that compose the treatment. A self-report measure of impulsiveness is found to identify people who will benefit most from the treatment. Experimental literature is reviewed to identify specific improvements to the methodology, literature streams for further review, and a promising field setting for future studies.
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Business Administration--Management, Psychology--Industrial
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Morin, C. (2013). Goal-Setting Training and Self-Regulation: A Treatment for Procrastination (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26312