The Influence Of Trait Anxiety And State Anxiety On Procrastination Behavior

Procrastination refers to the behavior that an individual intentionally or unintentionally delays the completion of tasks.Procrastination includes both trait procrastination,namely habitual procrastination,and procrastination in a certain situation.Procrastination is affected by many factors,such as personality,emotion,parenting style and task nature.In recent years,researchers have also paid attention to the influence of negative emotions such as anxiety on procrastination.Anxiety while as a kind of negative emotions,but its influence on procrastination is not always negative,so this study analyzes the trait anxiety and state anxiety of two different anxiety,to explore the anxiety of procrastination is of positive significance,to study relationship between trait anxiety and idiosyncratic delay,and further explore the trait anxiety and state anxiety impact on the situation of procrastination.In this study,questionnaire method and experimental method were combined to explore.The first research is questionnaire survey.400 questionnaires were distributed to college students in a normal university through convenient sampling,and 364 questionnaires were recovered,with a recovery rate of 91%.The questionnaire consists of two parts: trait anxiety subscale and general procrastination scale in STAI.The second study is an experimental study using anxiety-induced tasks and the referential exercise-test paradigm.The first part of study 2 is the preliminary experiment,which is to test the effectiveness of the anxiety-induced task.Twenty subjects are randomly selected and the state anxiety subscale of STAI scale is used to carry out the pretest and posttest for the subjects.The results of the two measurements before and after the task are analyzed.The second part is the formal experiment,and the design between subjects is selected 2(trait anxiety: high/low)2(trait delay: high/low)2(state anxiety: induced group/control group).The subjects in study one were divided into four groups according to the scores of trait anxiety and trait procrastination,and then further assigned to the subjects according to whether they were anxious or not.A total of eight groups of subjects were obtained.In the anxiety-induced group,the subjects need to complete the anxiety-induced task and the procrastination task,while in theanxiety-control group,the subjects only need to complete the procrastination task.The first study shows that :(1)the trait anxiety level and trait procrastination level of college students are both higher than the average level,and the differences in grade,gender and major between trait anxiety and trait procrastination are not significant.(2)trait anxiety has a significant positive correlation with trait procrastination,and trait anxiety can positively predict trait procrastination.Study 2 showed that :(1)there was a significant difference in the scores of state anxiety before and after the anxiety-induced task,and the scores of state anxiety in the state anxiety induced group were significantly higher than those in the control group.(2)the subjects in each group had significant differences in the practice time and the time node at which they started the practice,but no significant differences in the entertainment time.Among them,the group with high trait anxiety,high trait procrastination and state anxiety induction had the longest practice time and the earliest time node to start the practice.In terms of practice time,trait anxiety and state anxiety have significant main effects respectively.There is a significant interaction between trait anxiety and state anxiety.The main effect of trait procrastination is significant,and its interaction with trait anxiety and state anxiety is not significant.At the beginning of practice,trait anxiety,state anxiety and trait procrastination had significant main effects respectively,and there was a significant interaction between trait anxiety and state anxiety.The interaction between state anxiety and trait procrastination was significant,but the interaction among trait anxiety,trait procrastination and state anxiety was not significant.