How Conscientiousness and Neuroticism Affect Academic Procrastination

. We examined students’ procrastinatory behavior in a specific higher-education learning situation in relation to conscientiousness and neuroticism as well as motivational regulation. We hypothesized that conscientiousness would be associated with low levels and favorable trajectories of academic procrastinatory behavior, and neuroticism would be associated with high levels and unfavorable trajectories of procrastinatory behavior. Furthermore,...