Coping with stress and procrastination on teachers and administrative Huánuco – UNHEVAL - 2012

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Reynaldo Marcial Ostos Miravaol
Abner Alfeo Fonseca Livias
Pio Trujillo Atapoma

Keywords

Procrastination, stress coping modes

Abstract

The present study aimed to determine the existence of procrastination that means postponing the fulfillment of the task just for the fun of it in the end in the faculty and staff of the UNHEVAL and also establish the relationship presented is variable depending of stress coping styles: problem-focused, emotion-focused and according to other styles such as denial, distraction and inappropriate behavior, was evaluated for the effect to 98 teachers and 73 administrative workers, men and women through the General procrastination Scale developed by Busko, and adapted by Alvarez and Coping Modes Questionnaire stress (COPE), developed by Carver et al. The research is descriptive, comparative and showed the following results: The female staff obtained an average of 27.17 procrastination and male staff just over half (28.98) corresponding to figures midrange procrastination. Significant differences in procrastination regarding gender and age, finding staff procrastination highest at ages between 41 and 50 years. Also found statistically significant differences in procrastination as stress coping styles focused on the problem and as other coping styles, which can be explained in terms of the members of the sample tend to procrastinate when they try to tackle the problem that creates stress and when using other styles of coping such as denial, distraction and inappropriate behavior.

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