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I'll look after my health later: How procrastination undermines our health

Published: Oct. 5, 2009, 12:29 p.m.

Every procrastinator knows the stress\nassociated with that needless delay. The question is, does this relate\nto increased illness as well? In fact, it's not just the stress\nassociated with procrastination\nthat may affect your health. Treatment delay and fewer wellness\nbehaviors have been implicated in the procrastination-illness\nrelation.

In this podcast, I discuss the research of Dr. Fuschia Sirois (University of Windsor) who has been exploring the relation between procrastination and health. Note: Although I say otherwise in the introduction to the podcast, I end this podcast with a practical strategy to make your health-promoting behaviors a daily habit.

Bear with me today please, as I recorded this during a bout of the flu, so I do "wander" a bit. If you want to know about Dr. Sirois, you can check out her Health and Well-being Web site.

For more about procrastination, check out the Procrastination Research Group (including our Psychology Today blog, podcasts, cartoons and research). Here are a few of the studies I refer to today:

Sirois, F.M., Voth, J., &\nPychyl. T.A. (under review). "I'll look after my health later": A\nlongitudinal study of the linkages of procrastination to health and\nwell-being.

Sirois, F. M. (2007). "I'll look after my health, later": A\nreplication and extension of the procrastination-health model with\ncommunity-dwelling adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 43\n(1), 15-26.

Sirois, F. M., Melia-Gordon, M.L., & Pychyl,\nT. A. (2003). "I'll look after my health, later": An investigation of\nprocrastination and health. Personality and Individual Differences, 35\n(5),1167-1184.