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[The relationship study on the relationship between procrastination behaviors and bad personality disposition]
1Taizhou University Department of Education, Linhai 317000, China.
Objective:
To explore the relationship between procrastinate behavior of college students and bad personality disposition.
Methods:
566 college students were selected and followed through adopting the measurement on the procrastination scale of college students and Personality Disorders Questionnaire (PDQ-4).
Results:
Results showed that male and female college students did not have remarkable difference in terms of procrastination. High level procrastinators had a higher level of scores on bad personality disposition. In addition, College students' procrastination had close relationship with bad personality disposition (r = 0.341, P < 0.001).
Conclusion:
College students' procrastination had close relationship with bad personality disposition which did not match the findings from McCown's results on american college students.
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