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      Irrational Delay Revisited: Examining Five Procrastination Scales in a Global Sample

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          Scales attempting to measure procrastination focus on different facets of the phenomenon, yet they share a common understanding of procrastination as an unnecessary, unwanted, and disadvantageous delay. The present paper examines in a global sample ( N = 4,169) five different procrastination scales – Decisional Procrastination Scale (DPS), Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS), Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS), Adult Inventory of Procrastination Scale (AIP), and General Procrastination Scale (GPS), focusing on factor structures and item functioning using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory. The results indicated that The PPS (12 items selected from DPS, AIP, and GPS) measures different facets of procrastination even better than the three scales it is based on. An even shorter version of the PPS (5 items focusing on irrational delay), corresponds well to the nine-item IPS. Both scales demonstrate good psychometric properties and appear to be superior measures of core procrastination attributes than alternative procrastination scales.

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                03 November 2017
                2017
                : 8
                : 1927
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Department of Psychology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway , Tromsø, Norway
                [2] 2Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, University of Calgary , Calgary, AB, Canada
                Author notes

                Edited by: Dubravka Svetina, Indiana University Bloomington, United States

                Reviewed by: Lietta Marie Scott, Arizona Department of Education, United States; James Danckert, University of Waterloo, Canada

                *Correspondence: Frode Svartdal, frode.svartdal@ 123456uit.no

                This article was submitted to Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

                Article
                10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01927
                5676095
                29163302
                0b557752-911e-4cdf-a65b-1e03ba328c31
                Copyright © 2017 Svartdal and Steel.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 28 June 2017
                : 18 October 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 7, Equations: 0, References: 28, Pages: 10, Words: 0
                Categories
                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                procrastination,procrastination scale,measurement,confirmatory factor analysis,item response theory

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