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Procrastination-Stress Interrelationships: The Role of Information Overload in the Contemporary “Remote” Lifestyle

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 18757

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Dr. Francesco Di Nocera

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Department of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture—Sapienza University of Rome, 00196 Rome, Italy
Interests: mental workload; human error; usability; behavior-based design
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Dear Colleagues,

Procrastination (the postponement of an intended course of action) is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon involving cognitive, emotional and behavioural components. The negative impact of procrastination on both performance and quality of life has been extensively documented, but a complete understanding of the relationship between procrastination and stress is still a long way off.

Undoubtedly, procrastination and stress are mutually tied, given that procrastination has been reported to be both an antecedent and a consequence of stress. Notwithstanding, the nature of this relationship (as well as its direction) has not been clarified. In addition, the role of contextual factors deserves further investigation. Particularly, the information overload to which we are exposed in our daily interaction with digital systems poses several problems (e.g., distraction, interruption, addiction) that may either result in procrastination or be a correlate of procrastination behaviour. Recent technological changes, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, favoured a “remote” lifestyle (smart working, online schooling, virtual sociality), making the interaction with technology a compelling issue.

The scope of this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is to provide new insight into the understanding of the relationship between procrastination and stress. We especially encourage the submission of papers that take into consideration the role of problematic use of technology (also due to the pandemic-related restrictions) on procrastination and health-related outcomes. Articles dealing with new approaches to measure and treat procrastination are also welcome.

Research papers, reviews, case reports are welcome to this issue, as well as other manuscript types, including methodological papers, brief reports, and commentaries.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Francesco Di Nocera
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • procrastination
  • stress
  • productivity
  • smart working
  • online schooling
  • virtual sociality

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Reactance, Decisional Procrastination, and Hesitation: A Latent Class Analysis of Clutter Behavior
by Devki A. Patel, Verena Graupmann and Joseph R. Ferrari
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2061; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032061 - 23 Jan 2023
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During the 2019–2020 global pandemic, mandated time at home suggested engagement in personal projects, such as home decluttering. Clutter (an overabundance of possessions) may impede one’s quality of life by interfering with space livability and social connections and prompting negative affect and financial [...] Read more.
During the 2019–2020 global pandemic, mandated time at home suggested engagement in personal projects, such as home decluttering. Clutter (an overabundance of possessions) may impede one’s quality of life by interfering with space livability and social connections and prompting negative affect and financial problems. The present study explored action–state orientation, psychological reactance, and decisional procrastination with 227 American adults (M age = 49.9 years old). A latent class analysis tested for differences in cognition across groups. Results supported that persons who struggle with clutter reflect clusters or “classes” given their self-reported cognitive processes, with hesitant and indecisive participants experiencing greater negative impacts of clutter than action-oriented and decisive participants. Our findings suggested improving the decision-making and goal-directed capacities of those struggling with clutter may be effective as preventive and/or interventive strategies. Future research might consider when hesitation to initiate challenging tasks and indecision emerge in the decluttering timeline and how those who are prone to these cognitions may be supported in managing their personal possessions. Full article
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Procrastination and Stress: A Conceptual Review of Why Context Matters
by Fuschia M. Sirois
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(6), 5031; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20065031 - 13 Mar 2023
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Research over the past two decades has continued to highlight the robust associations between procrastination and stress across multiple populations and contexts. Despite this burgeoning evidence base and theory linking procrastination to higher levels of stress, as well as the reverse, the role [...] Read more.
Research over the past two decades has continued to highlight the robust associations between procrastination and stress across multiple populations and contexts. Despite this burgeoning evidence base and theory linking procrastination to higher levels of stress, as well as the reverse, the role of context in this potentially dynamic association has received relatively little attention. In this conceptual review I argue that from a mood regulation perspective of procrastination, stressful contexts necessarily increase risk for procrastination because they deplete coping resources and lower the threshold for tolerating negative emotions. Drawing on insights from coping and emotion regulation theory, the new stress context vulnerability model of procrastination proposes that the risk for procrastination increases in stressful contexts primarily because procrastination is a low-resource means of avoiding aversive and difficult task-related emotions. The new model is then applied to evidence on the primary and secondary sources of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and how they may have increased vulnerability for procrastination. After discussing potential applications of the new model for understanding how and why risk for procrastination may increase in other stressful contexts, approaches that might mitigate vulnerability for procrastination in high-stress contexts are discussed. Overall, this new stress context vulnerability model underscores the need for taking a more compassionate view of the antecedents and factors that may increase the risk for procrastination. Full article
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