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The aim of the analysis was to determine the relationship between mood regulation and typical ways of responding and feeling in situations of severe stress and procrastination; 96 people in the early adulthood were examined. The following research methods were used in the study: for measuring procrastination – the Pure Procrastination Scale; for the analysis of mood regulation – the Scales of Mood Regulation by Bogdan Wojciszke; for the assessment of coping strategies – the Brief-COPE questionnaire. The analyzes revealed the relationship between procrastination and mood regulation (procrastinating people usually use strategies that reduce mood) and between procrastination and eight (out of fourteen) coping strategies. With the increase in procrastination, the tendency to use non-adaptive styles of coping with stress, including the strategy of denying the existence of the problem and cessation of actions and abandoning attempts to achieve the goal, as well as strategies of dealing with something else and using a sense of humour is intensifying, strategies involving the absorption of unpleasant emotions by discharging them and blaming them. An inversely proportional relationship was observed between procrastination and adaptive coping strategies, consisting in planning further actions and taking action to improve the situation. Additional analysis did not reveal significant differences between men and women in the extent of procrastination. There were significant differences in two dimensions of procrastination: behavioural and decision-making.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2020.33.2.207-220
Date of publication: 2020-06-29 17:48:59
Date of submission: 2019-09-10 09:02:41
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