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Personality and individual differences in decisional procrastination

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Predrijevac, Nina. (2017). Personality and individual differences in decisional procrastination. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Psychology. [mentor Butković, Ana].

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Abstract

In this research, we investigated the delay in decision-making, a non-adaptive pattern of coping with the decision-making process. In order to examine the factors relevant to the deferral of decisions, we have calculated the correlation of the length of decision-making and the tension that arises when making routine decisions in everyday life with the tendency to experience regret, core self-evaluation and certain facets of neuroticism, extraversion and conscientiousness. The study was conducted on 130 employed adults with different demographic characteristics. The main findings suggest there is a strong link between the length of decision-making and the tension that occurs during decision-making, as well as that anxiety as a facet of neuroticism is the only significant predictor of delay in decision-making. Significant correlationsof the length of decision-making and the tension in deciding were found with the following variables: tendency to experience regret, core self-evaluation, the facets of neuroticism (anxiety, depression, self-consciousness and vulnerability) and some of the facets of conscientiousness (self-efficacy and self-discipline). When the effect of anxiety was controlled for, previously statistically significant correlationsofmeasured personality factors withthe length of decision-making and the tension that occurs during decision-making disappeared, suggesting the mediation effect of anxiety on relation of the length of decision-making with the tendency to experience regret, core self-evaluation, neuroticism facets (depression, self-consciousness, vulnerability) and conscientiousness facets (self-efficacy and self-discipline).

Item Type: Diploma Thesis
Uncontrolled Keywords: Delaying decisions; tension in decision making; core self-evaluation; tendency to regret; anxiety
Subjects: Psychology > Psihologija ličnosti
Departments: Department of Psychology
Supervisor: Butković, Ana
Date Deposited: 06 Feb 2018 13:30
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2018 13:30
URI: http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/9482

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