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Biying Zhang1, Rong Zhang2, Tingyong Feng3
1Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
High psychological resilience combats procrastination by enhancing goal planning and affect control. This study reveals key brain regions, like the left Inferior Frontal Gyrus, involved in this protective mechanism.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
Background:
- Procrastination negatively impacts well-being.
- The cognitive and neural underpinnings of the resilience-procrastination link are unclear.
Purpose of the Study:
- Investigate the cognitive and neural basis of the inverse relationship between psychological resilience and procrastination.
Main Methods:
- Utilized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and network modeling on 430 college students.
- Assessed psychological resilience using the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents (RSCA) and procrastination with the General Procrastination Scale (GPS).
Main Results:
- Psychological resilience's protective effect against procrastination is mediated by goal planning and affect control.
- Gray matter volume (GMV) in the left Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG) correlated with goal planning.
- GMV in the right Inferior Temporal Gyrus (ITG) correlated with affect control.
Conclusions:
- The left IFG and right ITG are crucial neural correlates of goal planning and affect control, respectively.
- These brain regions mediate the reduction of procrastination by psychological resilience.
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