Study On The Procrastination Of Contemporary College Students

Basically, procrastination is neither a simple issue of time management,nor a issue of morality, but it’s a complex psychological problems, including cognitive,emotional and behavioral components. Traditional research has defined procrastination as an individual self-regulation failure behavior, which always makes the individual can’t finish the task in time and produces negative emotions of depression, anxiety, self blame and so on. At the same time, it also has a negative impact on performance and mental and physical health. It is very important and urgent to understand the popularity and severity of procrastination in the crowd, discuss deeply the influence reasons of procrastination, improve the existing delay theories constantly and provide theoretical basis for the correction of procrastination for clinical application.In the past time, although there are a lot of studies on the causes of procrastination, there are few studies about classified discussion of procrastination, so we need to further verify whether there are differences between different types of symptom of procrastination and the causes of different types of procrastination. This study discusses the popularity level of arousal procrastination and avoidance procrastination respectively on the basis of classifying procrastination as arousal procrastination and avoidant procrastination. It also makes the questionnaire of procrastination, investigates the reason why comes out arousal procrastination and avoidance procrastination and analyzes whether procrastination will lead to the decline of mental health level.This research mainly adopts the method of questionnaire. Through analyzing the results of investigating648students in Zhao Qing University, we can find that:1. The questionnaire of the reasons why procrastination exists in college students has good reliability and validity, which made in this study. It can be used as a tool to measure the procrastination causes of college students.2. For College Students, the degree of arousal procrastination and avoidant procrastination are in the middle level. Among them, there are significant differences between grade and major categories. The degree of procrastination in Junior students is obviously higher than that in freshman and sophomore; the science and engineering students’procrastination level is significantly higher than that of the students who specialize in art and sport; but the difference about the gender, birth place and whether they are the only child in their family is not significant.3. The biggest reason of affecting procrastination is the ability of time management, lazy and task characteristics. After the multiple stepwise regression,we can find that the nature of the task, environmental impact and the fear of failure can be used to predict arousal procrastination positively, in which the nature of the task can be predicted the highest part,the exact number is31.8%; the nature of the task, fear of failure and environmental impact can be used to predict avoidant procrastination positively, in which the nature of the task can be the highest prediction part, the exact number is32%.4. Two types of procrastination behavior of college students are negatively correlated with the level of mental health. The college students who have the higher level of procrastination will have lower mental health.