Running head: PROCRASTINATION The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Self-Regulatory Failure Piers Steel University of Calgary Piers Steel, Human Resources and Organizational Development, University of Calgary. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Piers Steel, 444 Skurfield Hall, 2500 University Drive N.W., University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4, or Piers.Steel@Haskayne.UCalgary.ca, or Fax: 403-282-0095 I would like to sincerely thank Henri Schouwenburg for his enthusiasm in this endeavor as well as his willingness to share and translate his considerable research on procrastination. Abstract Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure but not entirely understood. Here, the relevant conceptual, theoretical, and empirical work is reviewed, drawing upon correlational, experimental, and qualitative findings. Summarizing 684 correlations, a meta-analysis of pr...
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