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Work-Family Balance Challenges Developmental psychology

3 papers

The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure.

Piers Steel
Psychological Bulletin Summary & key facts 2007 3,145 citations

This paper reviews research on procrastination and runs a meta-analysis of 691 correlations. It finds that some personality traits (neuroticism, rebelliousness, sensation seeking) have only weak links to procrastination. Strong and consistent predictors include task aversiveness, task delay, low self-efficacy, impulsiveness, and low conscientiousness (including poor self-control, distractibility, poor organization,…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies Work-Family Balance Challenges

Attachment Anxiety Is Linked to Alterations in Cortisol Production and Cellular Immunity

Lisa M. Jaremka, Ronald Glaser, Timothy J. Loving, William B. Malarkey, Jeffrey R. Stowell, Janice K. Kiecolt‐Glaser
Psychological Science Summary & key facts 2013 130 citations

Researchers studied 85 married couples (170 people) to see if worries about close relationships (attachment anxiety) link to stress hormones and immune cells. People with higher attachment anxiety had higher saliva cortisol across three days and lower counts of several T-cell types in blood. The study is observational, mostly white…

Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum Work-Family Balance Challenges

Delaying Disposing: Examining the Relationship between Procrastination and Clutter across Generations

Ferrari, Joseph R., Roster, Catherine A.
SpringerLink Summary & key facts 2018 44 citations

Researchers used online surveys to compare three U.S. adult groups—college students (mean age 21), younger adults from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mean age 31), and older adults recruited through the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (mean age 54). They found that behavioral procrastination (putting off actions) explained more of the differences in…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies Work-Family Balance Challenges
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