Why Do I Procrastinate? Test
An 18-question procrastination test measuring avoidance, the intention-action gap, and real consequences — with science-based tactics to fix it.
18 questions
4 min
Instructions
Answer for your actual behavior over the past few months — including the embarrassing parts — not your intentions.Original items; construct informed by procrastination research (Steel; Tuckman; Sirois & Pychyl); no proprietary scale text reproduced.
Citations
- Steel, P. (2007). The nature of procrastination. Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 65-94. Temporal motivation theory / meta analysis
- Sirois, F. M., & Pychyl, T. (2013). Procrastination and the priority of short-term mood regulation. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. Procrastination as emotion regulation