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September 18, 2025

Defensive pessimism influences approaches to learning psychological well-being and academic performance through academic procrastination

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PVPatra Vlachopanou

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Analysis reveals defensive pessimism indirectly affects academic performance through procrastination, suggesting new coping strategies.

Key Points

  • Defensive pessimism contributes to higher procrastination, leading to lower academic performance and well-being.
  • Students exhibiting defensive pessimism showed a correlation with procrastination that negatively impacted their GPA.
  • Mediation analysis indicates procrastination mediates the relationship between defensive pessimism and learning outcomes.
  • Focusing on coping strategies could mitigate avoidance behaviors linked to pessimistic thoughts and improve performance.

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Patra Vlachopanou (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d462c131b076d99fa61fa7https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7381980/v1
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