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CBT account of academic procrastination as cognition maintained across three levels

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Description

The article frames academic procrastination as grounded in cognitive structures that CBT discusses "in three dimensions, as false automatic thoughts, intermediate beliefs, and core beliefs." Within this framework, people procrastinate because of established ways of thinking, and change requires replacing irrational beliefs with rational ones at all three levels. The program's effectiveness was, in the authors' view, tied to replacing cognitions at each level, with cognitive, affective, and behavioral techniques used together.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Interventions must address automatic thoughts, intermediate beliefs, and core beliefs together, per the article's account of why the program worked

Constraints

  • The account is the authors' interpretation of their findings, consistent with the cognitive-behavioral approach and Knaus's explanations

Target Learners

  • university students

Learning Goals

  • reducing academic procrastination by changing cognitions

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Key Sources

  • Betül Toker, Raşit Avcı. (2015). Effect of Cognitive-Behavioral-Theory-based Skill Training on Academic Procrastination Behaviors of University Students. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice. https://doi.org/10.12738/estp.2015.5.0077
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title CBT account of academic procrastination as cognition maintained across three levels
description The article frames academic procrastination as grounded in cognitive structures that CBT discusses "in three dimensions, as false automatic thoughts, intermediate beliefs, and core beliefs." Within this framework, peo...
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