Table 4. Results of the Exploratory Factor Analysis on the 28 Items of the Second Part of the Scale.
| Scale Second Part’s Items | Component a and Factor Loadings | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reasons for procrastination | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 28. You felt overwhelmed by the task. | 0.685 | |||
| 33. You did not’ trust yourself to do a good job. | 0.674 | |||
| 43. You felt that the project was too hard for you to do. | 0.651 | |||
| 29. You had difficulty requesting information from other people. | 0.587 | |||
| 24. You were worried that you would get a bad grade. | 0.546 | |||
| 42. You set very high standards for yourself and you worried that you wouldn’t be able to meet those standards. | 0.383 | |||
| 30. You looked forward to the excitement of doing this task at the last minute. | 0.714 | |||
| 36. You liked the challenge of waiting until the deadline. | 0.710 | |||
| 40. You were concerned that if you got a good grade, people would have higher expectations of you in the future. | 0.661 | |||
| 32. You were concerned that if you did well, your classmates would resent you. | 0.611 | |||
| 38. You resented people setting deadlines for you. | 0.499 | 0.395 b | ||
| 44. Your friends were pressuring you to do other things. | 0.486 | |||
| 25. You resented having to do things assigned by others. | 0.353 | |||
| 34. You didn’t have enough energy to begin the task. | 0.735 | |||
| 35. You felt it would take too long to write a term paper. | 0.656 | |||
| 27. You really disliked writing term papers. | 0.449 b | 0.590 | ||
| 46. You thought that at the end of the semester, your professor would be too busy to check your work meticulously. c | 0.584 | |||
| 45. You anticipated the cancelation of the project. c | 0.557 | |||
| 37. You knew that your classmates hadn’t started the paper either. | 0.507 | |||
| 22. You had too many other things to do. | 0.331 | |||
| 20. You waited for your classmate’s presentation to learn how to prepare your work.’ | 0.689 | |||
| 26. You didn’t think you knew enough to write the paper.’ | 0.595 | |||
| 41. You waited to see if the professor would give you some more information about the paper. | 0.578 | |||
| 31. You couldn’t choose from among all the topics. | 0.557 | |||
| 21. You had a hard time deciding what to include and what not to include in your paper. | 0.551 | |||
| 19. You were concerned that the professor wouldn’t like your work. | 0.523 | |||
| 23. There was some information you needed to ask the professor, but you felt uncomfortable approaching him/her. | 0.365 b | 0.446 | ||
| 39. You were concerned that you wouldn’t meet your own expectations. | 0.371 b | 0.404 | ||
| Eigenvalue | 3.12 | 3.05 | 3.01 | 2.76 |
| Variances, % | 11.15 | 10.88 | 10.76 | 9.84 |
a 1. Low confidence. 2. Risk taking. 3. Laziness. 4. Dependency.
b Cross-loading.
c New items.