Julia (Procrastination)
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| Subject: Do it tomorrow. There's still enough time for that. *yawn* Wed Dec 27, 2017 11:37 am | |
| Procrastination Name:Julia ???(They didn't bother with their surname.)Representative of:ProcrastinationGender:SuuuUUUUUPER!Age:Honestly, Jul doesn't even know how old they are—they stopped counting after the first few centuries—but they reckon they look 18? Yeah. Probably.Brief personality:To make it short, Jul's a procrastinator. They want to sleep around all day, and this kinda makes them perfect for a Tumblr user, but they had procrastinated on making an account for that, and up until now they have no Tumblr account, or any other social media accounts for that matter. They're pretty laid back, always wondering why people fight when they could just, you know, put that off for another day, say, next week. Because of this one trait, they'd need a person who would force them to move, despite them not wanting to. Jul's actually pretty clingy and needs attention to live, so they'd need cuddles often like, probably every hour. They're also pretty wicked and on the grey spectrum of morality—if it doesn't benefit them, they'd pay it no mind. They can be nice too, sometimes.- Conversation between Jul and the admin:
"What are you doing?" Jul asked from their position on the bed, cuddling the hotdog pillow I gave them for Christmas. I think they just woke up. "I'm making this application, you know, for the site," I replied absentmindedly, typing in the personality of this one character on my phone. "Stop that. Come on, just cuddle with me." I felt the pull of their power on me and I quickly got away. "No, you stop that!" I shrieked. "Just sleep and I'll return later! Gods," I cursed as I went out of the room. I heard them make a sound of frustration before sleeping again. Brief physical description:Jul has a short, messy, dark brown hair, cut short, with the bangs just hanging over their face. They have this squinted-eye look that would make them seem like they just woke up (which is true most of the time). If they were up for a long time, their resting face would always have this amused look, even though there was nothing to be amused about. They're also like, in an unhealthy shade of pale, so unless someone tells them to go out, they won't. Jul usually wears a sweater twice their size, more likely a dark colour, and pajama pants, because they're still procrastinating on changing clothes, like, maybe later. They're also barefoot. If someone would actually bother to dress them up, maybe they'd look more presentable than this.Brief history:Procrastination (from Latin's "procrastinare", that translates in to: the prefix pro-, 'forward', and the suffix -crastinus, 'till next day' from cras, 'tomorrow') is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished. Sometimes, procrastination takes place until the "last minute" before a deadline. Procrastination can take hold on any aspect of life—putting off cleaning the stove, repairing a leaky roof, seeing a doctor or dentist, submitting a job report or academic assignment or broaching a stressful issue with a partner. Procrastination can lead to feelings of guilt, inadequacy, depression, and self-doubt.- More:
- Behavioural criteria:
Gregory Schraw, Theresa Wadkins, and Lori Olafson in 2007 proposed three criteria for a behavior to be classified as academic procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying. Steel reviewed all previous attempts to define procrastination, and concluded in a 2007 study that procrastination is "to voluntarily delay an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse off for the delay." Sabini & Silver argued that postponement and irrationality are the two key features of procrastination. Putting a task off is not procrastination, they argue, if there are rational reasons for doing so.
An approach that integrates several core theories of motivation as well as meta-analytic research on procrastination is the temporal motivation theory. It summarizes key predictors of procrastination (expectancy, value, and impulsiveness) into a mathematical equation.
- Psychological perspective:
The pleasure principle may be responsible for procrastination; one may prefer to avoid negative emotions, and to delay stressful tasks. As the deadline for their target of procrastination grows closer, they are more stressed and may, thus, decide to procrastinate more to avoid this stress. Some psychologists cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. Piers Steel indicated in 2010 that anxiety is just as likely to get people to start working early as late, and that the focus of studies on procrastination should be impulsiveness. That is, anxiety will cause people to delay only if they are impulsive.- Perfectionism:
Traditionally, procrastination has been associated with perfectionism: a tendency to negatively evaluate outcomes and one's own performance, intense fear and avoidance of evaluation of one's abilities by others, heightened social self-consciousness and anxiety, recurrent low mood, and "workaholism". However, adaptive perfectionists—egosyntonic perfectionism—were less likely to procrastinate than non-perfectionists, while maladaptive perfectionists, who saw their perfectionism as a problem—egodystonic perfectionism—had high levels of procrastination and anxiety. In a regression analysis study of Steel, from 2007, it is found that mild to moderate level of perfectionists typically procrastinate slightly less than others, with "the exception being perfectionists who were also seeking clinical counseling".
- Coping responses:
Negative coping responses of procrastinating individuals tend to be avoidant or emotional rather than task-oriented or focused on problem-solving. Emotional and avoidant coping is employed to reduce stress (and cognitive dissonance) associated with putting off intended and important personal goals. This option provides immediate pleasure and is consequently very attractive to impulsive procrastinators at their first knowledge of achievable goals. There are several emotion-oriented strategies, similar to Freudian defense mechanisms, coping styles and self-handicapping.
Coping responses of procrastinators include the following.
- Avoidance: Avoiding the location or situation where the task takes place (e.g. a graduate student avoiding driving into the university).
- Denial and trivialization: Pretending that procrastinatory behavior is not actually procrastinating, but rather a task which is more important than the avoided one, or that the essential task that should be done is not of immediate importance.
- Distraction: Engaging or immersing in other behaviors or actions to prevent awareness of the task (e.g. intensive video game playing or web browsing). They are very sensitive to instant gratification and become powerless.
- Descending counterfactuality: Comparing a life situation with others who have it worse (e.g. "Yes, I procrastinated and got a B− in the course, but I didn't fail like one other student did.")
- Valorisation: Pointing in satisfaction to what one achieved in the meantime while one should have been doing something else.
- Blaming: Delusional attributions to external factors, such as rationalizing that the procrastination is due to external forces beyond one's control (e.g. "I'm not procrastinating, but this assignment is tough.")
- Mocking: Using humor to validate one's procrastination. The person uses slapstick or slipshod methods to criticize others' striving towards the goal as funny.
Task- or problem-solving measures are taxing from a procrastinator's outlook. If such measures are pursued, it is less likely the procrastinator would remain a procrastinator. However, pursuing such measures requires actively changing one's behaviour or situation to prevent and minimize the re-occurrence of procrastination.
In 2006, it was suggested that neuroticism has no direct links to procrastination and that any relationship is fully mediated by conscientiousness. In 1982, it had been suggested that irrationality was an inherent feature of procrastination. "Putting things off even until the last moment isn't procrastination if there is a reason to believe that they will take only that moment". Steel et al. explained in 2001, "actions must be postponed and this postponement must represent poor, inadequate, or inefficient planning".
- Negative impact:
For some people, procrastination can be persistent and tremendously disruptive to everyday life. For these individuals, procrastination may be symptomatic of a psychological disorder. Procrastination has been linked to a number of negative associations, such as depression, irrational behaviour, low self-esteem, anxiety and neurological disorders such as ADHD. Others have found relationships with guilt and stress. Therefore, it is important for people whose procrastination has become chronic and is perceived to be debilitating to seek out a trained therapist or psychiatrist to see if an underlying mental health issue may be present.
With a distant deadline, procrastinators report significantly less stress and physical illness than do non-procrastinators. However, as the deadline approaches, this relationship is reversed. Procrastinators report more stress, more symptoms of physical illness, and more medical visits, to the extent that, overall, procrastinators suffer more stress and health problems.
Religious affiliation:Jul has no religion. They have procrastinated that for like, millennia.Any special powers or abilities:They can even procrastinate stress and if that's not a special power then I don't know what is. Also, they can make people procrastinate with just some of their words if they'd actually use it, but most of the time they won't because, maybe they can just do it later.Their color in the chatbox is #ff9900. |
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