Reimagine Procrastination: Music Preference and Health Habits as Factors on Self-Perceived Procrastination of Young People

TL;DR

This study investigates how music preferences and lifestyle factors influence self-perceived procrastination among young people using advanced statistical methods.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive quantitative model linking music taste, living habits, and procrastination, addressing data missingness with multiple imputation.

Findings

Hip-hop, Alternative, and Opera preferences significantly affect procrastination.

Eating habits and urban/rural residence are strongly connected to procrastination.

The study employs factor analysis, multiple imputation, and ordered logit regression.

Abstract

As the buzzword phenomenon, procrastination holds a continued need for a comprehensive examination of its nature and the associated factors. The presented study explores the potential relationship between music taste, life style and the youngsters' procrastination through quantitative modelling. To handle the big set of survey statistics and the uncertainty caused by the data missingness, the combined methods of factor analysis, multiple imputation (MI) and Ordered logit regression are employed. The result reveals that the music preference for Hip-hop, AlternativeR and Opera have a significant effect on procrastination. Concerning the living habits, the eating habit and local authority (city/rural) also yield strong connection to the self-perceived procrastination. Implications for this procrastination research is discussed.