PROCRASTINATION AS REVENGE - DO PEOPLE REPORT USING DELAYS AS A STRATEGY FOR VENGEANCE

Procrastination may be a means of getting revenge for mistreatment by others or inequities from life. Across two samples, the relation betwe en procrastination and revenge was assessed. In Sample 1,263 college s tudents completed self-reported inventories on revenge and decisional and behavioral procrastination. Revenge was significantly related to d ecisional procrastination, behavioral procrastination, and dysfunction al procrastination. In a second sample, 277 other college students com pleted the procrastination and revenge scales, plus measures of irrati onal beliefs and just world. Results indicated that only a just world belief was related significantly with decisional, behavioral, and dysf unctional procrastination. Irrational beliefs and revenge were not sig nificantly related to procrastination in this sample. Taken together, these studies indicate that people may not openly admit the use of ''p rocrastination as revenge,'' and the relation between these personalit y variables is tentative at best.