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Co může ekonomie říct o prokrastinaci
Fibiger, Ivo ; Janíčko, Martin (advisor) ; Špecián, Petr (referee)
The thesis analyzes the measure of academic procrastination among students and the measure of general procrastination among working population with a university degree. The thesis includes 3 studies. In study 1 an experiment was conducted on 33 students of the University of Economics in Prague. The results show, that students achieve better academic results given external, evenly distributed deadlines compared to when they are allowed to set the deadlines themselves. The second study analyses long-term data about 1909 students of the University of Economics and their academic results. The results show that procrastination can influence as much as 8% of the final grade. Study 3 analyzes information about 2487 subjects and their tax-return forms. It puts into context the dates of submission of the tax returns and personal characteristics of the submitters. The results show that procrastination declines with age. Methods on how to fight procrastination are suggested at the end of the thesis.
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Influence of age on measure of procrastination
Fibiger, Ivo ; Svoboda, Miroslav (advisor) ; Čermáková, Klára (referee)
The work investigates the measure of general procrastination of adult working population and factors, that influence it. Influence of age, gender and college education is investigated on data consisting of information about 14 086 tax return forms of Prague entrepreneurs. A negative influence of age and college education on the measure of procrastination was discovered by using econometric and statistic methods. It was also revealed that men procrastinate more than women. Hypothesis of positive influence of age on the measure of procrastination is denied. The work also suggests methods of how to lower procrastination or how to prevent it.
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Analysis of the academic procrastination among students of VŠE and 1. LF UK
Pavlovová, Adéla ; Chytilová, Helena (advisor) ; Čermáková, Klára (referee)
This paper is aimed at establishing the prevalence of academic procrastination among students of the University of Economics in Prague and the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University. This study brings a comparative study of procrastination of two different branches of science in the Czech Republic. It focuses on determining the extent of difference in procrastination between these two groups of students and whether there is a correlation between the achieved degree average and the level of procrastination. Procrastination scale for students (Lay, 1986) was used to determine the extent of procrastination. The 81,1% rate of academic procrastination was observed in the examined sample (N=244). Hypothesis about a significant difference between the levels of procrastination among two groups of students was confirmed at 10% significance level. Hypothesis on the correlation between the grade average and the level of procrastination was confirmed.
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Economy of Academic Procrastination of Students bachelors degree NF VŠE
Foktová, Nikola ; Chytilová, Helena (advisor) ; Klesla, Arnošt (referee)
The work deals with the level of academic procrastination among students of full-time bachelor's degree Faculty of Economics University of Economics in Prague. Procrastinating behavior of participating students were measured by PSS (Procrastination Scale for Student Populations, Lay, 1986). In the sample of students (N = 90) was observed 80% rate of academic procrastination, consisting of medium and heavy procrastinators. The influence of gender, age and motivations on student procrastinating tendencies was confirmed. Female students reached demonstrably lower score than male students. The hypothesis about positive impact of student's age on his academic procrastination was confirmed. It was also revealed negative impact of the internal motivation on the student's final level of academic procrastination.
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Comparison of Discounted Utility Model and Hyperbolic Discounting in Intertemporal Decision Making
Koranda, Martin ; Chytilová, Helena (advisor) ; Hurník, Jaromír (referee)
Article compares two basic models of intertemporal decision making used for computation of discount rate. In application part it is tested if there are so called anomalies of discounted utility model in preferences of real agents. Article examines Sign Effect, Magnitude Effect and preference reversals by discount rate. For measuring of discount rate and for identifying of these anomalies it is used a questionnaire method of expressed preferences. The comparison of both models is firstly theoretical and then in the aplication part they are compared with a data. It was proved in aplication part that there is evident Sign Effect, Magnitude Effect and preference refersals that indicates inconsistent time preferences. It was observed that people in real life discount rather hyperbolically than exponentially. Annual discount rate measured from mean and median data is 94,47% and 52,26% respectively.
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Dynamický model prokrastinace
Vraný, Martin ; Bartoň, Petr (advisor) ; Hudík, Marek (referee)
The thesis presents a formal model of intertemporal decision problem of working on a task for distant reward which depends on the number of periods the subject actually spends working, where the subject faces varying opportunity costs of working each period before the deadline. Three psychologically plausible causes of procrastination are incorporated into the model as transformations of the decision problem. In order to assess a hypothesis that procrastination is an evolved and stable habit, the third transformation renders the model dynamic in that past decisions and circumstances affect the present. The model is first explored via qualitative analysis and simulations are performed to further reveal its functionality.
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