Three causes of procrastination: anxiety 

Causes of Procrastination: 1 Anxiety:

This is based on perceived threats to your self-esteem if you engage in the avoided task.

Some examples: imagine asking someone out for a date instead of avoiding it. The prospect of doing so starts to make you feel anxious because you believe you will be turned down by the person you ask and this will confirm in your mind that you are unattractive.

You continually put off writing an article because you fear it will be rejected for publication thereby proving that ‘I have no talent’. You loaf around the house all day instead of working on your college essay because if you do start it, you have visions of it not being good enough to achieve a top grade and thereby exposing you as a failure.

Avoiding these activities helps to keep your anxiety and the associated feared consequences ‘out of sight’ in the short-term but perpetuates your problems in the longer-term (e.g. your life remains devoid of romance and sexual activity).
 

The three main causes of procrastination:

1. Anxiety

2. Low frustration tolerance (LFT)

3. Rebellion
 

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