Hope and Academic Procrastination in Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

Academic procrastination among adolescents is an increasingly prominent problem. It is important to look for influences behind academic procrastination in the adolescent population. The present study aimed to reveal the explanatory mechanisms underlying the association between hope and academic procrastination behaviors among Chinese adolescents by testing the mediating role of attentional control and the moderating role of trait mindfulness. Participants in the current study were 1156 Chinese adolescents who completed self-report ques-tionnaires on hope, attentional control, academic procrastination, and trait mindfulness. The results indicated that adolescent hope was negatively related to academic procrastination and that attentional control partially mediated this association. In addition, trait mindfulness moderated the direct association between hope and aca-demic procrastination in the mediated model. In conclusion, identifying the mechanisms by which hope is asso-ciated with academic procrastination in adolescent populations is of potential value for the prevention of and intervention in this undesirable study habit.