时间动机理论

也被称为: Temporal motivation · Irrational delay · Self-regulatory failure

拖延是指尽管预期延迟会带来更差的结果,个体仍自愿、非理性地推迟原本打算采取的行动方案。时间动机理论将其解释为一种自我调节的失败,即随着截止日期的临近感逐渐消退,任务的效用会下降,而与之相竞争的诱惑在时间上则更为切近。该理论将期望、价值、冲动性和延迟整合为一个单一的方程式。

来源:

Steel, P. (2007). The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure. Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 65-94. Steel, P. (2010). Arousal, avoidant and decisional procrastinators: Do they exist? Personality and Individual Differences, 48(8), 926-934.

DOI:

10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.65