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Procrastination Tendency Questionnaire Test

In 10 minutes, the Procrastination Tendency Questionnaire Test guides you through 54 questions about delaying tasks across everyday, academic, and work situations. Your result highlights situation-dependent and trait-related patterns, helping you reflect on motivation, deadlines, and task completion habits.

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How the Scales are Structured

Situation-DependentSD

Measures how much task delay depends on situational interest and external motivation rather than self-driven initiation.

example score6/12

6/12Moderate dependenceexample score

0 – 4Low dependence

5 – 6Moderate dependence

7 – 12High dependence

A score of 6 indicates a moderate tendency to postpone tasks when interest or external incentives are low, while still being able to engage under some motivating conditions.

Trait-Related ProcrastinationTRP

Measures a stable, personality-linked tendency to consciously delay tasks across different life areas, especially affecting goal pursuit at work or study.

example score11/18

11/18Highexample score

0 – 6Low

7 – 10Moderate

11 – 18High

A score of 11 falls in the High range, suggesting a pronounced tendency to postpone tasks and potential difficulty maintaining consistent follow-through on important goals.

Overall Procrastination ScoreOPS

Measures the general tendency to delay tasks across different areas of life.

example score49/108

49/108Moderateexample score

0 – 34Low

35 – 57Moderate

58 – 108High

A score of 49 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not pervasive tendency to postpone tasks across life domains.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Students under deadline pressure

41%OF USERS

They take the test to understand why they delay studying, essays, or exam prep and which situations trigger avoidance.

Overloaded working professionals

34%OF USERS

They use it to pinpoint where work tasks stall, whether from fear of mistakes, unclear priorities, or low motivation.

Coaching and therapy clients

25%OF USERS

They take it as a starting point with a specialist to measure procrastination patterns and choose practical strategies for change.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Situationally conditionedSc

You?

Average7.7

Typical rangeTypical5.5 – 10

Possible0 – 12

Personality-RelatedP

You?

Average6.3

Typical rangeTypical3.2 – 9.4

Possible0 – 18

Overall procrastination scoreOps

You?

Average49

Typical rangeTypical30.7 – 67.3

Possible0 – 108

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Yes, this is definitely true of me
- This is only partly true of me
- No, this is definitely not true of me
- Yes, this is definitely true for me
- This is only partly true for me
- No, this is definitely not true for me
- Yes, this is definitely true of me
- This is only partly true of me
- No, this is definitely not true of me

These are 3 of the 54 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Procrastination Tendency Questionnaire Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who want to examine how deadlines, routine duties, or decisions get postponed can use the Procrastination Tendency Questionnaire Test as a structured self-reflection tool. It suits readers examining habits across home, study, and work. The result identifies dependence on interest or external motivation alongside a broader cross-domain tendency to delay. This procrastination self-assessment highlights the respondent’s pattern across situations.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions describe last-minute work, unfinished tasks, routine duties, preparation, decisions, emotional tension, and consequences of delay. They also test dependable completion and the ability to act without waiting for an ideal mood. As a procrastination questionnaire, it distinguishes dependence on interest or external prompting from a steadier pattern across life domains.

The result is organized around three displayed dimensions:

Situation-Dependent (0-12) shows whether completion depends on interest or external motivation; Low dependence (0-4), Moderate dependence (5-6), and High dependence (7-12) are the displayed bands.
Trait-Related Procrastination (0-18) reflects stable delay across responsibilities and goals; Low (0-6), Moderate (7-10), and High (11-18) are the displayed bands.
Overall Procrastination Score (0-108) estimates general severity across life domains; Low (0-34), Moderate (35-57), and High (58-108) are the displayed bands.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item offers three response positions: definitely true, partly true, or definitely not true. The three positions provide graded self-descriptions, not frequency estimates. Responses are combined into the three displayed dimensions, with higher values indicating more dependence or procrastination on the relevant scale. The displayed results do not specify how responses convert into points.

Its content is conceptually consistent with the Shirvari et al. (2015) questionnaire, not a formal adaptation of it. Steel (2007) frames procrastination as self-regulatory failure, while Steel (2010) discusses arousal, avoidant, and decisional patterns. Svartdal and Steel (2017) show that measures may overlap without assessing identical features. These sources clarify the construct but do not establish equivalent norms or validation evidence for this online version.

Use the procrastination assessment to compare the profile with routines and situations where delay appears. The displayed bands are categories for reading each scale; higher categories indicate more of the tendency that scale names. Because answers depend on context, memory, honesty, and self-awareness, the result is best used for reflection and is not a diagnosis.

Author: Piers Steel

Literature:

Shirvari, O. A., Chernaya, E. E., Panov, V. A., Ryabova, E. E., Rudenko, D. E., Biryukova, S. I., Kuzmina, N. O., Stolyarova, Yu. V., Baranova, A. A., and Kozlova, N. S. (2015). Development of a Questionnaire to Study an Individual's Tendency Toward Procrastination. Young Scientist, 24(104), 1105-1113.
Steel, P. (2007). The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure. Psychological Bulletin, 133(1), 65-94. 10.1037/0033-2909.133.1.65
Steel, P. (2010). Arousal, Avoidant and Decisional Procrastinators: Do They Exist? Personality and Individual Differences, 48(8), 926-934. 10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.025
Svartdal, F., and Steel, P. (2017). Irrational Delay Revisited: Examining Five Procrastination Scales in a Global Sample. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1927. 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01927

Updated: 2025-10-02