PROCRASTINACIóN, PROCRASTINACIóN ACADéMICA: CONCEPTO E IMPLICACIONES

Procrastination is behavior patterns characterized by voluntarily postpone activities that must be paid at a set time. The person had been found to exhibit the behavior is related to procrastination, low self-confidence deficit, lack of self-control, depression, disorganized behavior and in some cases perfectionism, dysfunctional impulsivity and anxiety. In the academic context, procrastination is defined as the postponement of tasks of the school context, whether academic or administrative, has found that academic procrastination may be related to the presence of delay behavior in other areas. In Colombia there are studies on procrastination that permit the realization of characterizations that lead to future research.