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