Anxious about failure, procrastinators still vividly imagine goals, study finds

A Psychological Reports study with 111 UK university students found that frequent procrastinators can vividly imagine achieving personally important short- and long-term goals just as well as non-procrastinators, but experience greater anticipatory anxiety about failure—especially for short-term goals—supporting the view that procrastination stems from managing negative emotions rather than an inability to envision the future.