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Numerous cross-sectional studies have explored the correlations between self-esteem and academic procrastination, but the causal relation of these two crucial variables is still controversial, and their developmental relation over time is also unclear. We used cross-lagged and latent growth models to address these two relations. The results showed that (a) self-esteem was an antecedent of academic procrastination; (b) the self-esteem of the adolescent participants was declining while academic procrastination was gradually increasing; and (c) the initial level of self-esteem negatively predicted the initial level of academic procrastination and positively predicted the upward trend of academic procrastination, whereas the downward trend of self-esteem negatively predicted the upward trend of academic procrastination. These findings shed light on the longitudinal relation between self-esteem and academic procrastination, which could help researchers and educators intervene with adolescents’ academic procrastination from a developmental perspective.
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Yang, X., Liu, RD., Ding, Y. et al. The relations between academic procrastination and self-esteem in adolescents: A longitudinal study. Curr Psychol 42, 7534–7548 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02075-x
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