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Overcoming Procrastination: The Effect of Implementation Intentions 1
Author(s) -
Owens Shane Gregory,
Bowman Christine G.,
Dill Charles A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00309.x
Subject(s) - procrastination , psychology , odds , social psychology , logistic regression , statistics , mathematics
A hypothesized solution for procrastination is the formation of an implementation intention (Van Eerde, 2000). University students ( N = 152) were assessed using the Aitken Procrastination Inventory (Aitken, 1982) and were asked to report to an experiment. Half of the participants formed implementation intentions to attend. An odds ratio indicated that participants who formed implementation intentions were nearly 8 times more likely to keep their appointments than those who did not. Low procrastinators reported more often for the experiment than did high procrastinators (Low = 49.4%; High = 30.1%), χ 2 (1, N = 152) = 5.84, p < .016. The interaction between implementation intentions and procrastination was not significant, χ 2 (1, N = 152) = 0.28, p < .60.