The Study Of The Influence Of Perfectionism, Achievement Motivation And Unconditional Self-acceptance On Procrastination

Regardless of how fast the modern pace of life is,procrastination still plague a small part of the population. Procrastination what is a behavioral tendencies, may be described as the individual voluntary, irrational to delay in beginning or completing a task or a decision, and accompanied by subjective discomfort and lead to adverse consequences. From the definition of procrastination can also be seen to it’s the negative impact to people’s lives and mental health. So it is very necessary to analyze the studies to the impact of factors about procrastination,with the double meaning of the theory and clinical practice.In this study, we adopts literature review, survey method on access to perfectionism, achievement motive and unconditional self-acceptance to the influence of the procastination mechanism of further study. First, the revised the Pure Procastination Scale which work out by steel (2010). This study investigated300undergraduates, received270valid questionnaires, After exploratory factor analysis and repeatedly revising the initial test questionnaire, a formal scale formed.Then,we investigated450undergraduates and got391valid questionnaires, which for Reliability and Validity of the questionnaire test, including internal consistency reliability, test-retest reliability, content validity, construct validity, the school criterion-related validity. Secondly, we were surveyed1000college students,941were valid responses. Through analysis the characteristics of the views of procastination were examined on participants of different gender, grade,,and major. At last, this study measured to check the relationship of perfectionism, achievement motivation, unconditional self-acceptance and procastination. And examination of unconditional self-acceptance intermediary role between perfectionism, achievement motivation and procrastination. In order to provide a new entry point to the clinical intervention. The results show that:(1) The revised questionnaire consists of10items and two dimensions, in which two dimensions are:procrastination behavior and procrastination results. Two dimensions of Pure Procastination Scale more fit the definition of procastination. The Pure Procastination Scale has good reliability and validity which can be used as an effective measurement of people’s procastination.(2) The procrastination of college students are not seriously, but there are also small portion of college students (10%-20%) get in trouble with procrastination. The procastination in the gender difference was not significant, but procrastination results of males were significantly higher than females.There are significant differences in grade and major. procastination has an increasing trend with increasing grade. The procrastination of Master degree in the investigation were significantly higher than other each grade. The scores of liberal art students were significantly higher than the science students and engineering students.(3) The relationship between the dimensions of perfectionism and procrastination were significantly correlated,except personal standards dimension. Negative perfectionism (concern over mistakes, personal standards, doubt about action, parental expectation/criticism) was positively correlated with the procastination, positive perfectionism (organization) was negatively correlated with the procastination.(4) The relationship of the two dimensions of achievement motivation and procrastination were significantly correlated. The pursuit of successful achievement motivation and the procrastination was negatively correlated. The avoiding failure motivation was positively correlated with the procastination.(5) The relationship of the two dimensions of unconditional self-acceptance questionnaire and procrastination were significantly correlated. The conditional self-acceptance was positively correlated with the procastination, unconditional self-acceptance delay was negatively correlated with the procastination.(6) The conditional self-acceptance of unconditional self-acceptance questionnaire had a mediation effect on the relationship between negative perfectionism and the procastination;conditional self-acceptance had a mediation effect on the relationship between the avoid failure motivation and the procastination.