2 Responding to maths anxiety: procrastination
You may find that you respond to maths anxiety by procrastinating. Procrastination is the act of putting off something unpleasant (e.g. preparing an assignment) until the very last minute, when the deadline is looming and there’s no longer any choice but to get on with it. The task could be replaced with any number of displacement activities (e.g. scrolling on your phone or attending to a household chore).
And ‘procrastination’ is defined as:
to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring.
(Cambridge Dictionary, n.d.)
Procrastination is NOT being lazy, or a time management issue.
Figure 2 illustrates some common reasons that people procrastinate.
