Is poor control over thoughts and emotions related to a higher tendency to delay tasks? The link between procrastination, emotional dysregulation and attentional control.

A tendency to procrastinate has previously been linked to low attentional control and poor emotion regulation skills. Building upon these findings, in the present study we investigated whether the relationship between procrastination and attention can be corroborated and explained by emotion dysregu...

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Published in:	British Journal of Psychology Vol. 116; no. 4; pp. 807 - 831
Main Authors:	Wiwatowska, Ewa, Prost, Magdalena, Coll‐Martin, Tao, Lupiáñez, Juan
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Nov2025
Subjects:	Poland Cross-sectional method Arousal (Physiology) Executive function Emotions Attention Impulsive personality Psychology of college students Cognition Emotion regulation Statistical correlation Pearson correlation (Statistics) Worry Research funding Wandering behavior Questionnaires Analysis of covariance Descriptive statistics Procrastination Research Factor analysis Data analysis software Thought & thinking
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