Document Type : Research Article
Abstract
Perfectionism as a stable personality
characteristic that influences various aspects of human life in a complex way.
Several studies show that perfectionists reduce their anxiety by doing
procrastinating behaviors. So, the purpose of this study was to investigate the
mediating role of cognition avoidance and anxiety as cognitive factors in the
relationship between perfectionism and procrastination. For this purpose, a
sample of 278 undergraduate, master and doctoral students (118 male and 160
female), with a mean age of 25.4 and standard deviation of 5.50 from five state
university were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. In order to collect
data, students answered Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS),
Solomon and Rothblum Academic Procrastination Scale, DASS-21 Scale and Cognition
Avoidance. In order to analyze data, structural equation modeling (SEM) has been
used. The results showed that there were significant and positive causal
relationships between perfectionism, anxiety and procrastination and the
mediating role of cognition avoidance, indirectly through anxiety in the
relationship between perfectionism and procrastination has been verified. Thus
when cognition avoidance causes more anxiety in people who are perfectionist,
this leads to more procrastination.
Keywords
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