ABSTRACT
When individuals have problems with procrastination, however, it usually refers to them acting in a dilatory manner and thus laying something aside until a future unspecified time or, if a future time has been specified, no action occurs when the time arrives. The major challenge in tackling procrastination is that it acts as ‘an impediment to correcting itself’. Some surveys suggest that up to 20 per cent of the adult population are chronic procrastinators and suffer the usually high costs for such behaviour: It [procrastination] has been associated with depression, guilt, low exam grades, anxiety, neuroticism, irrational thinking, cheating and low self-esteem. As a result, procrastination probably accounts for much of why many never realize their full potential and so it can be an extremely disabling psychological condition. L. Sapadin suggests that individuals display a mix of procrastination styles: some are more prominently displayed than others.
