La perseverancia como clave de la autorregulación para prevenir la procrastinación y promover un estilo de vida saludable

Abstract

Procrastination is understood as not fulfilling or completing scheduled activities, which usually leads to adverse psychological and physical consequences that can harm people's well-being. From the academic field, it has been determined that approximately 80% of university students procrastinate in various aspects of their lives (Steel y Ferrari, 2013). There is evidence that procrastination may be due to a failure of self-regulation processes, which include stable personal dispositions such as perseverance and conscious self-regulation strategies such as goal setting, learning from mistakes, and decision making that reflect (positively or negatively) in cognitive, meta-cognitive and motivational aspects. This failure in self-regulation processes, in turn, has been related to the practice of behaviors that are not beneficial to health or the absence of a healthy lifestyle. This is reflected particularly in young people with little practice of physical activity, unhealthy eating habits, poor quality of sleep or rest, and consumption of harmful substances. This research seeks to understand the relationship between procrastination, selfregulation and a healthy lifestyle by: identifying the extent and ways in which procrastination is related to the dimensions of self-regulation (cognitive-motivational, strategic and personal); know how the dimensions of self-regulation influence behaviors associated with a healthy lifestyle; finally identify the relationship between procrastination, self-regulation and healthy lifestyle, by extending the procrastinationhealth theoretical model (Sirois et al., 2003).