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1、PersonalityandIndividualDifferences117(2017)23–29ContentslistsavailableatScienceDirectPersonalityandIndividualDifferencesjournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/paidLifehistorystrategiesandprocrastination:TheroleofenvironmentalunpredictabilityBin-BinChe
2、n⁎,WenxiangQuFudanUniversity,ChinaarticleinfoabstractArticlehistory:LifehistorytheoryprovidesaunifyingperspectiveonunderstandinghumanbehaviorsasadaptivestrategiesinReceived22April2017responsetoparticularenvironmentalconditions.Procrastination,characteri
3、zedbyseekingimmediatehedonicReceivedinrevisedform19May2017rewardsandavoidinginvestmentforfuturerewards,canbeseenasafastlifehistorystrategyinresponsetoAccepted20May2017theunpredictableenvironment.Thepurposeofthepresentstudywastoexaminetherelationshipsbet
4、weenen-Availableonlinexxxxvironmentalunpredictability,lifehistorystrategiesandprocrastination.Intwostudies,participantscompletedameasureofenvironmentalunpredictability,lifehistorystrategiesandprocrastination.Samplesincluded577ad-Keywords:Procrastination
5、olescents(Study1)and253youngadults(Study2).Acrosstwostudies,wefoundthatthosewhoperceiveden-Lifehistoryvironmentalunpredictabilityreportedgreaterlevelsofprocrastination.Furthermore,aslowlifehistorystrategySlow/faststrategymediatedtheassociationbetweenper
6、ceptionsofenvironmentalunpredictabilityandprocrastination.Implica-Environmentalunpredictabilitytionsforlifehistorytheory,conceptualizingprocrastination,andfutureresearchdirectionsarediscussed.©2017ElsevierLtd.Allrightsreserved.1.Introductionhumansvaryin
7、theirLHstrategies,rangingonaslow-to-fastcontinuum(DelGiudiceetal.,2015;Figueredoetal.,2006;Griskeviciusetal.,Procrastinationisconceptualizedasaformofself-regulatoryfailure2013).AfasterLHstrategyevolvedinaharshandunpredictableenvi-involvingthepurposivede
8、layofintendedtasks(Chen,2017a;Ferrari,ronment,andisassociatedwithimpulsivity,short-termopportunism,2010;Steel,2007).Alargebodyofliteratureindicatesthatcertainenvi-risktaking,promiscuity,andlowparentalinvestment(Belsky,ronmentalfa