The Relationship Between Trait Anxiety and Procrastination of College Students: A Moderated Mediating Effect

Abstract

Abstract: The present study examined whether time management disposition mediated the relationship between trait anxiety and procrastination, and whether this mediating effect was moderated by self-monitoring. 555 college students (mean age=19.94 years,SD=0.97) from one university in Jinan completed four anonymous questionnaires, namely State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Aitken Procrastination Inventory, Self-Monitoring Scale and Adolescence Time Management Disposition Inventory. The results showed that:1) Trait anxiety positively predicted to procrastination among college students; 2) Time management disposition played a partial mediating role in the association of trait anxiety and procrastination among college students; 3) The mediating effect of time management disposition was moderated by self-monitoring among college students. Specifically, with self-monitoring increasing, the negative relation of time management disposition and procrastination and the mediating effect of time management disposition were increasing.

Key words: trait anxiety, college students' procrastination, time management disposition, self-monitoring, moderated mediating effect

摘要： 采用时间管理倾向量表、自我监控量表、状态-特质焦虑问卷、Aitken拖延问卷对555名大学生进行问卷调查，探讨特质焦虑与大学生拖延行为之间的关系及机制。结果发现：（1）特质焦虑对拖延有显著的正向预测作用；（2）时间管理倾向在特质焦虑与大学生拖延行为之间起部分中介效应；（3）时间管理倾向的中介作用受到自我监控水平的调节，随自我监控水平的提高，时间管理倾向对拖延行为的负向预测作用加强，特质焦虑通过时间管理倾向对拖延行为的间接预测作用加强。

关键词: 特质焦虑, 大学生拖延行为, 时间管理倾向, 自我监控, 有调节的中介效应

CLC Number:

B848

GENG Jingyu, HOU Xiao, YANG Huayong, HAN Piguo, GAO Fengqiang, HAN Lei. The Relationship Between Trait Anxiety and Procrastination of College Students: A Moderated Mediating Effect[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(3): 402-407.

耿靖宇, 侯晓, 杨华勇, 韩丕国, 高峰强, 韩磊. 特质焦虑与大学生拖延行为的关系：有调节的中介模型[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2019, 17(3): 402-407.

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