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| Published: August 14, 2021
Countering The Rise in Covid-19 Related Procrastination: An Intervention Study
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Gargi College, University of Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Student, Gargi College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Student, Gargi College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Student, Gargi College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.060.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.060
ABSTRACT
The lockdown due to Covid-19 has propelled a lot of individuals to procrastinate more and deviate from their usual standards of well-being. Procrastination becomes unhealthy for the youth as it involves a harmful delay of tasks that turns into dysfunction. A total of 27 individuals in the 18-25 age group met the sampling criteria and are selected to undergo various interventions for three weeks. The underlying assumption is that the lockdown is related to an increase in procrastination due to numerous factors. The present study is a pre and post design to understand how the interventions made a difference. Lay’s General Procrastination Scale (1986) is used along with a brief qualitative interview to assess the results. The research hypothesis suggests that helpful interventions lead to a decrease in Procrastination. Results show 100% decrease in procrastination levels with significance beyond 0.001 level at the end of interventions, hence, the hypothesis is proved. The study confirms that simple interventions such as mindfulness, physical activity, meditation can be applied to effectively tackle procrastination and enhance well-being.
Keywords
Procrastination, COVID-19 Lockdown, Intervention, Mindfulness, Physical Activity, Well-Being, Youth, Gratitude Journals, Lay’s General Procrastination Scale (1986)
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Ghosh Choudhury S., Ananya, Katoch S. & Tanishqa
Received: June 05, 2021; Revision Received: July 25, 2021; Accepted: August 14, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.060.20210903
10.25215/0903.060
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