Barriers or helpers to health: A systematic review and three-level meta-analytic evidence to the associations between procrastination and health.

Authors

Ting Yang, Shan Guo, Qianyu Zhang, Zhiyi Chen, Desheng Lu

Published in

Journal of health psychology. Pages 13591053251351764. Jul 20, 2025. Epub Jul 20, 2025.

Abstract

This study aims to clarify the overarching association between procrastination and health, as well as potential moderators, by conducting a systematic three-level meta-analysis. Following the PRISMA guidelines, a search across PubMed, Wiley, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science databases resulted in 66 studies with 32,131 participants. Results indicated a moderate positive correlation between procrastination and adverse health outcomes (r = 0.2901, p < 0.001). Moderating effect was found for the procrastination subtype (F_(1,120) = 4.33, p = 0.04; r_{(Trait procrastination)} = 0.27, p < 0.05; r_{(Domain-specific procrastination)} = 0.32, p < 0.05). Such evidence not only sheds light on the exact association between procrastination and health but also highlights the potentially severer repercussions on domain-specific procrastinators.

PMID:
40684385
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 20 Jul 2025.

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