Procrastination and Task Avoidance
Theory, Research, and Treatment
Authors: Ferrari, Joseph R., Johnson, Judith L., McCown, William G.
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Procrastination is a fascinating, highly complex human phenomenon for which the time has come for systematic theoretical and therapeutic effort. The present volume reflects this effort. It was a labor of love to read this scholarly, timely book-the first of its kind on the topic. It was especially encouraging to find that its authors are remarkably free of the phenomenon they have been investigating. One might have expected the opposite. It has often been argued that people select topics that trouble them and come to understand their problems better by studying or treating them in others. This does not appear to be true of the procrastination researchers represented in this book. I base this conclusion on two simple observations. First, the work is replete with recent refer ences and the book itself has reached the reader scarcely a year following its completion. Second, when one considers the remarkable pace of pro grammatic research by these contributors during the past decade, it is clear that they are at the healthy end of the procrastination continuum. The fascinating history of the term procrastination is well documented in this book. The term continues to conjure up contrasting, eloquent images-especially for poets. When Edward Young wrote in 1742, "Pro crastination is the Thief of Time," he was condemning the waste of the most precious of human commodities.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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An Overview of Procrastination
Pages 1-20
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Procrastination Research
Pages 21-46
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Assessment of Academic and Everyday Procrastination
Pages 47-70
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Academic Procrastination
Pages 71-96
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Trait Procrastination, Agitation, Dejection, and Self-Discrepancy
Pages 97-112
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Procrastination and Task Avoidance
- Book Subtitle
- Theory, Research, and Treatment
- Authors
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- Joseph R. Ferrari
- Judith L. Johnson
- William G. McCown
- Series Title
- The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
- Copyright
- 1995
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4899-0227-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4899-0227-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-306-44842-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4899-0229-0
- Series ISSN
- 1568-2528
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 268
- Topics
