Disadvantages Of Procrastination

The word procrastination comes from two Latin words ‘pro’ and ‘crastinus’. ‘Pro’ refers to forth, in favor of, or forward and the second one is ‘crastinus’ which refers to tomorrow

(Zarick & Stonebraker, 2009). From these two definitions of procrastination, it can, therefore, be defined basically as the action of deferring a given task or responsibility. According to the current research, almost everyone in this world has procrastinated at least once if not many times in one’s lifetime (Semprebon, Amaro & Beuren, 2017). People often end up putting off their tasks until the end of the day or until the very end moments rather than performing the task the very moment they receive the task. They often tend to rush around with deadlines always

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Amali, Chowdhury and Pychyl (2017) assert that rather than procrastination, there are other forms of actions such as postponing task that delay the accomplishment of the tasks. For instance, choosing to perform a given task ‘A’ at a later time because there is another task ‘B’ that is more important than task ‘A’. Such an action may not be classified as an act of procrastination rather than an act of choosing the priority. Most people believe that procrastination is a negative act that results in decreased performance and lowquality work. Therefore, it is argued that there exist two major causes of procrastination which are; individual’s personality and their mental state which results to poor performance and low quality of work especially to the students.

Major Causes of

As such, it is evident that this habit is caused by individual’s personality.

The other cause of procrastination is the individual’s mental state. A good example of this is depression and fatigue which have always been related to procrastination (Thakkar, 2009).

A person who is depressed is most likely not to perform a certain task at the right time but rather opts to perform it later which can be considered as procrastination. Additionally, individual’s energy which is closely related to the mental state is also another cause of procrastination. In the real sense, it becomes very difficult to perform a given task when one is tired. Most people often give the reason for not having done a certain task due to the fact that they did not have the energy to do so. It is very difficult to complete a given task when one is tired, and while one may finish it, the quality of the results is often not good (Semprebon, Amaro & Beuren, 2017).

Effects of Procrastination

One of the major effects of procrastination is poor performance. This is probably