Locus Of Control And Task Difficulty On Procrastination

The Effects of Locus of Control and Task Difficulty on Procrastination

Introduction
The main topic that the authors were interested in learning more about was the way individuals can control events that affect them and the task difficulty on procrastination. Procrastination is putting off something or delaying something. In a previous study an estimate of forty six percent to ninety five percent of college students procrastinated on academic assignments. The longer the students were in college the more they would tend to procrastinate. in the end researchers realized that procrastination was associated with difficulties in test anxiety, missed deadlines for assignments, poor semester grades, depressed affect, low self-esteem, and social anxiety. There were three hypotheses in this journal article. The first hypothesis is students with internal control expectancies will procrastinate less than those with external control expectancies. The second hypothesis is students who receive the difficult assignment will procrastinate more than those who receive the easy assignment. The third hypothesis
Ten of them were men and thirty two of them were woman. The researchers measured procrastination by the time that passed between the date the assignment was given and the dates when the students began, completed, and returned the assignment. The researchers measured locus of control by a twenty eight true or false questionnaire that was designed to assess the locus of control with relation to academic outcomes. The higher the scores indicated that the student had external control expectancies. The students were enrolled in two psychology students in a small college. Randomly selected students were assigned either an easy article of a difficult article. The students were assigned work sheets and were instructed to return them as soon as they were finished, with no actual