# Procrastination as a transdiagnostic construct: a psychopathological and conceptual scoping review - URL: https://alisanburak.com/en/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0938 - Language: en - Last updated: not specified - Page title: Procrastination as a transdiagnostic construct: a psychopathological and conceptual scoping review | WCP 2026 Summary > Procrastination is not simply a time management problem but a transdiagnostic construct rooted in emotion regulation difficulties and executive dysfunction; ho… This page was translated automatically from Turkish. [Read the original](https://alisanburak.com/wcp-2026-posterler/ev0938) This page is an AI-assisted Turkish summary of the study presented at the 26th World Congress of Psychiatry. The study belongs to the presenting authors; please refer to the original source when citing it. EV0938 E-PosterOtherScoping review # Procrastination as a transdiagnostic construct: a psychopathological and conceptual scoping review PROCRASTINATION AS A TRANSDIAGNOSTIC CONSTRUCT: A PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL SCOPING REVIEW Presenter: Ygor A. Ferrão Country: Brazil Procrastination is not simply a time management problem but a transdiagnostic construct rooted in emotion regulation difficulties and executive dysfunction; however, the literature is based almost entirely on nonclinical student samples. The review aimed to map the conceptual definition of procrastination, its psychopathological associations, and its measurement landscape. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and SciELO were searched in accordance with PRISMA-ScR criteria; of 16,363 records, 394 full-text articles were assessed and 387 studies were included. Screening was conducted in Rayyan by two independent authors, disagreements were resolved by a third author, and Cohen’s kappa for a random subset was 0.81. Of the publications, 80.9% appeared between 2013 and 2023; 76.2% used cross-sectional designs (n = 295), 5.7% were scale validation studies (n = 22), 4.9% were cohort studies (n = 19), and 3.1% were systematic reviews (n = 12), while only 1.3% (n = 5) included a meta-analytic synthesis. English accounted for 86.8% of publications (n = 336), Spanish for 9.3% (n = 36), and Portuguese for 3.9% (n = 15). The combined sample comprised more than 83,000 individuals, with a reported female proportion of 63.98% (SD = 14.19) and a mean age of 24.24 years (SD = 4.16). The effect of sex differences was very small (r approximately 0.04, slightly higher in males), and prevalence peaked between ages 14 and 29; approximately 20% of adults and 50% of students reported chronic and severe procrastination. The gap in clinical representation was marked: only 1.3% of publications focused on actual clinical or subclinical samples, with 5 studies on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and 1 on obsessive-compulsive disorder. Of the studies, 49.4% (n = 191) examined psychopathological aspects, 21.4% (n = 83) examined sociodemographic factors, and 83.5% (n = 323) used formal measurement scales. The authors define procrastination as voluntary and irrational delay despite awareness of its negative consequences, conceptualizing it as a transdiagnostic construct rooted in shared impairments in neurocognition, attentional control, and emotion regulation. They propose executive function training and emotion regulation therapy as treatment targets and emphasize the need to shift research toward clinical samples. [View the original poster](https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/448) How to cite this study APA 7: Ferrão, Y. A., et al. (2026, September 23-26). Procrastination as a transdiagnostic construct: a psychopathological and conceptual scoping review [E-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026), Stockholm, Sweden. https://cslide.ctimeetingtech.com/wcp26/attendee/eposter/file/448 Vancouver: Ferrão YA, et al. Procrastination as a transdiagnostic construct: a psychopathological and conceptual scoping review [e-poster]. 26th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2026); 2026 Sep 23-26; Stockholm, Sweden. 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