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Shows how often you put off decisions and tasks even when it hurts you. Twelve statements about starting late, wasting time and missing deadlines give one average from 1 to 5. It is a prompt to look at your habits, not a diagnosis.
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The Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) was published by Piers Steel in 2010. Its 12 statements cover delaying decisions, starting and finishing tasks late, and running out of time before deadlines. Each answer scores 1 to 5 and the result is the average of all twelve, from 1 to 5. A higher average means you put things off more often. The scale has no official cutoffs, so this page shows only your score.
Procrastination is a habit, not a disorder, and a questionnaire cannot tell its cause. Frequent delay can come with stress, perfectionism, low mood or attention difficulties, and a professional can help sort that out.
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No. A lazy person does not want to act, while a procrastinator often wants to and still delays, knowing it will cost them. The scale asks about exactly this kind of delay.
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Source: Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS): Steel P., 2010, Arousal, avoidant and decisional procrastinators: Do they exist?, Personality and Individual Differences 48(8), 926-934. Items as in Svartdal F., Steel P., 2017, Irrational Delay Revisited, Frontiers in Psychology 8:1927, Table 1.
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