The relationship between procrastination, personality traits, metacognitive beliefs, and worry

The main aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between general procrastination behavior, personality traits, metacognitive beliefs, and worry. A total of 217 individuals (165 females, 52 males) aged between 18-68 were included in the study. The data of the research were collected online. In this cross-sectional study, Demographic Information Form, General Procras-tination Scale, Five Factor Personality Scale, Metacognition-30 Scale, Penn-State Worry Ques-tionnaire were used. Regression analysis revealed that conscientiousness trait and cognitive self-consciousness, negative and positive predictors of general procrastination behavior, respectively. Worry was not a statistically meaningful predictor of procrastination. In addition, results of me-diation analysis showed that cognitive self-consciousness partially mediated the relationship between conscientiousness trait and procrastination. As a result, findings pointed that the role of metacognitive beliefs should be also evaluating for understanding the procrastination behavior. In addition, results of the current study could support developing new intervention programs for procrastination problems.