Investigating Relationship Between Procrastination and Cognitive Resilience Among Adults

Abstract

Differences in various age groups and skills have led to research to be done to bridge the gap. In such a pursuit, an experimental study was conducted under the title ‘Effect of Procrastination and Cognitive Resilience among Adults’. The population size for the study was 150 – out of which, through random sampling, N = 120 was deduced. The objectives of the study were – to establish a relationship between procrastination and cognitive resilience, to predict the presence of procrastination on cognitive resilience among the respective age-groups. The data was collected through online mode, where a Google form was created consisting of questions from the standardised questionnaires for Procrastination and Cognitive resilience. Tuckman’s Procrastination Scale and Smith M. A.’s Cognitive Resilience scale was chosen to administer on the population. The results were analysed through IBM SPSS using correlation and regression. Three hypotheses were postulated and statistical analysis was done on each hypothesis. The results of the study showed low positive correlation between procrastination and cognitive resilience, but it was significant at 0.01 level – for the first hypothesis, which was accepted but cannot be generalised. There was no prediction of presence established between procrastination and cognitive resilience on young adults (N = 60), and so, the null hypothesis was accepted. Whereas, there was a significant prediction of presence between procrastination on cognitive resilience among early middle adults, so the null hypothesis was rejected. From the results it was inferred that, choice of variables was diverse which led to diverse responses across both the age groups.