bedtime procrastination
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English
Etymology
Coined by Dutch researcher Floor M. Kroese in 2014.
Noun
bedtime procrastination (uncountable)
- (psychology) A failure of self-regulation wherein one fails to go to bed at the intended time, despite no external circumstances preventing one from doing so.
- 2014 June 19th, Floor M. Kroese, Denise T. D. De Ridder, Catharine Evers, Marieke A. Adriaanse, “Bedtime procrastination: introducing a new area of procrastination” (article № 611), in Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology, volume 5, , →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, article title
Derived terms
Translations
psychology: unforced failure to go to bed at the time one intends
Further reading
bedtime procrastination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
