Steel et al reported the Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) to evaluate a person for procrastination.
Items:
(1) delay making decisions until too late
(2) delay acting on a decision even after it has been made
(3) waste a lot of time on trivial matters before getting to the final decisions
(4) waste time by doing other things while in preparation for some deadlines
(5) even things that require little else than to sit down and do them seldom get done for days
(6) perform tasks that had intended to do days before
(7) continually saying that it will be done tomorrow
(8) generally delay in starting work on a task that has to be done
(9) run out of time
(10) do not get things done on time
(11) not very good at meeting deadlines
(12) putting things off until the last minute has cost me money in the past
Items taken from the Decision Procrastination Scale (DPS, items 1-3), General Procrastination Scale (GPS, items 4-8) and Adult Inventory of Procrastination (AIP, items 9-12).
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Response
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Points
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very seldom
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1
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seldom
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2
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sometimes
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3
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often true
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4
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very often true
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5
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total score =
= SUM(points for all 12 items)
Interpretation:
• minimum score: 12
• maximum score: 60
• The higher the score the greater the evidence for procrastination.
