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The Claim

Most existing approaches to reducing academic procrastination focus primarily on either improving study environments or developing individual self-regulation skills, rather than combining both approaches.

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The Short Version

The literature supports the view that academic procrastination interventions are usually designed around a single target, especially individual self-regulation, while integrated approaches that combine personal-skill training with study-environment changes are less common. Reviews and commentaries repeatedly call for more holistic designs, which indicates such combined approaches are not yet the norm.

Caveats

  • The word “most” is supported mainly by repeated review-level characterizations, not by a single published numerical breakdown of all intervention types.
  • The literature is clearest about the dominance of self-regulation interventions; environment-focused interventions appear less common, so the two single-focus categories are not equally represented.
  • Several listed sources are lower-authority hosts or reproductions, but the conclusion is mainly supported by higher-quality reviews and peer-reviewed syntheses.

The Receipts

  1. Exploring Effective Interventions to Combat Procrastination | 2024

    Teachers College, Columbia University (EPIC)

  2. Academic interventions for academic procrastination: A review of the literature

    PubMed

  3. Interventions to reduce academic procrastination: A systematic review

    ScienceDirect

  4. The effects of self-regulated learning strategies on academic ...

    Frontiers in Psychology

  5. How Study Environments Foster Academic Procrastination

    PubMed Central

  6. Effects of self-regulated learning and procrastination on academic ...

    SpringerLink

  7. Toward a Holistic Approach to Reducing Academic Procrastination

    SAGE Journals

  8. Predicting academic procrastination of students based on academic self-efficacy and emotional regulation difficulties

    Scientific Reports (Nature Research)

  9. Toward a Holistic Approach to Reducing Academic Procrastination in the Classroom

    University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)

  10. SELF-REGULATION OF ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION: A MIXED METHODS STUDY

    Pennsylvania State University (ETDA)

+ 12 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

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Academic ProcrastinationSelf-RegulationStudy Environment

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