Procrastination, need for cognition and sensation seeking

Using questionnaire methods, we studied the relationship and possible effec t of optimal level of stimulation (sensation seeking) on the delay in the d ecision making process - procrastination. A sample of 138 subjects, univers ity students from the Technical University (75 men and 63 women, mean age 2 0.3 yrs.), received the following questionnaires: The Melbourne Decision Ma king Questionnaire (MDMQ; Mann et al., 1997); Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS - form V; Zuckerman, 1994); Need for Cognition Scale (NCS; Cacioppo et al., 1982, 1984); Procrastination Scale for Students (Lay, 1996). The results c onfirmed our hypothesis that high procrastination will correlate positively with sensation seeking (except socially accepted TAS) and, on the other ha nd, that procrastination will correlate with low need for cognition, low se lf-esteem as a decision maker, high score for hypervigilance and high buck- passing. The results are discussed in terms of the needed and preferred neg ative stimulation in subjects marked as high seekers.