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Academic procrastination

The term procrastination has its historical roots in the Latin verb procrastinare, meaning quite literally, to put off or postpone until another day (DeSimone, 1993). This itself is a compilation of two words-pro, a common adverb implying forward motion, and crastinus, meaning belonging to tomorrow. Then, if we are talking about academic procrastination, it could be understand as delaying tasks in an academic context. More specifically Schouwenburg (1995) designate in a working hypothesis that academic procrastination is: (1) postponing the moment one is intending to begin studying; or (2) postponing the moment that actual studying is to begin; or (3) study intention-behavior discrepancy; or (4) doing things other than studying. In the year 2004, Schouwenburg did a theoretical distinction between procrastination as behavior and as a trait. The first one refers to a task-specific avoidance behavior -it could be used for academic procrastination in the short term- and the second one means a tendency to exhibit a typical response in a variety of situations, in other words, procrastination is generalized as a trait of the person -it could be used for academic procrastination in the long term, when it takes part of someone's personality-