The relationship between self-esteem levels and procrastination behavior

Self-Development

Procrastination and self-esteem

Self-Esteem and Procrastination

Procrastination and self-esteem

Self-esteem

Many authors and practitioners have defined self-esteem differently, but the best definition would be the evaluation of any individual, regarding the person's worth. When individuals have different perceptions about the accomplishments they attained, and how successful they were in attaining their short and long-run goals, then the evaluation aims at ascertaining the person's self-esteem. Self-esteem always contains many elements, ranging from personal respect, general liking of oneself, and how one accepts him or herself. If categorized, self-esteem is divided into two. The Global esteem, where the individual's self-esteem is evaluated in general and the domain esteem that focuses on factors of the individual, including the person's physique and academic potentials (Robins et al. 2012).

Self-Esteem and Life Outcomes

Self-esteem has adverse effects on the most fundamental elements of life, ranging from satisfaction in relationships, depression, health, occupational positions, amounts of salary and general job satisfaction. Most of the factors of life affect the human being from infancy to old age (Robins & Widaman, 2011).

Relationship Satisfaction

Satisfaction in relationship is suggested to be correlated positively with self-esteem. This means that those who possess the highest self-esteem are at better chance of enhancing their relationship status, compared to those with low esteem. In fact, those with low self-esteem behave in manners suggesting that they are towards damaging of the relations. Most people are more sensitive when rejected and often reduce interaction with those they feel uncomfortable. This surrounding of unrest is what brings conflict into the relationships (Robins and Widaman, 2011).

Occupational position and salary range

Just like the relationship case, there is also a correlated link between the occupational status of any individual, and the person's self-esteem. This analysis is what reveals the socio-economical position of the individual. High esteem has been known as one of the factors leading to educational standards of a person, hence can have an effect on the position level one qualifies for in the job market, and the salary is determined by the hieratical positions (Robins and Widaman, 2011).

Self-esteem effects on health

Stressors, which include the events that have negative implications, the chronic difficulties and most traumas, have an undesirable impact on the mental and also the physical ability of human beings. Medical studies show that a big percentage of the stressors are impacted by lack of proper lifestyles, undesirable social relationships and low self- esteem. In an effort to help control the adversity of deleterious health, high self-esteem is a vital tool that will be of assistance during the medication processes, and can even totally prevent the unhealthy situations (Thoits, 2010).

Job satisfaction

Employees who believe that they have what it takes to succeed (qualifications, capabilities, and value) are most likely to enjoy their workplace environment, due to the fact they see themselves as worthy the job. This is what leads to job satisfaction (Bowling, et al., 2010). Organizational-based self-esteem is, therefore, mandatory, for both the development of career and understanding the psychology processes at the workplace, leading to job satisfaction (Gardner, et al., 2010).

Procrastination

Procrastination is the process whereby an individual possess the trait or continuous behavior to always forward and postpone matters to the future, yet they need urgent attention. The matters at hand include obligations, duties, tasks and even decision making. Procrastination is, therefore, analyzed and categorized into general, non-obsession, decision making, neurotic and academic procrastination (Sirin, 2011). Procrastination substantially affects the society, as it causes problems in many areas of human interest, including the environment and most importantly, the individual's health. Decisions that have to be made are postponed resulting to future negative implications. The problems that are moved for future attention end up piling and seeming impossible to correct. For instance, postponing making savings for insurances and retirement benefits has affected many Americans, to such extend recovering from the situation is deemed impossible (Steel, 2010).

Impacts of procrastination

a) Procrastination on academic obligations

To prove that procrastination is prevailing in schools, a study showed that over eighty percent of the students in college were indulging in procrastination, and over seventy of the total percentage knew they were procrastinating (Steel, 2007). Many students suffer the negative effects of procrastination, which is evident in the performances and abilities of those students. Procrastination has also been related to other negative behaviors and results, like anxiety and phobia for examination, delaying to submit assignments, fear of lower grades, unadvised study habits, poor peer relations and expectation of low grades in the exams. Nonetheless, most students have many interests and often run out of time, hence juggle with procrastination to meet all their obligations at specified times (Chow, 2011).

b) Procrastination in organizations

Organizational structures and its communication channels are responsible for ensuring its employees do not cultivate a culture of exercising procrastination. Lack of interest on the employee's satisfaction and comfort ability are some of the aspects in the organization's workplace for that initiates procrastination of tasks. For the success of any organization to be actualized, there has to be an environment, which supports the employees and helps the employees realize the significance of self-esteem, which guarantees reduced rate of procrastination in the workplace (Harris & Sutton, 1983).

Conclusion

Having discussed the self-esteem and procrastination aspects, it is necessitated that individuals of the society, ranging from learning institutions to organizations, to ensure they realize their life ambitions, through elevating their self-esteem, and ensuring they avoid the unnecessary habit of procrastinating, which has a direct effect to individual development.