Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The 12-item Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) was created by combining the 12 highest loading items from 3 other procrastination assessments. Respondent indicate their answers to question items on a 5-point Likert Scale ranging from 1 (very seldom or not true of me) to 5 (very often true or true of me). The PPS has been translated into several languages. Subscore(s): Decisional Delay, Irrational Delay, Delay in meeting deadlines/timeliness
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; self-management ; Decisional Delay ; Irrational Delay ; Delay in meeting deadlines/timeliness
Languages
English,
Finnish,
French,
German,
Italian,
Norwegian,
Polish,
Swedish
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
12 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Undefined
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Steel, P. (2010). Arousal, avoidant, and decisional procrastinators: Do they exist?. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 926-934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.025
Svartdal, F. & Steel, P. (2017). Irrational delay revisited: Examining five procrastination scales in a global sample. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01927
