Effect of Procrastination on Psychological Well Being: Mediating Roles of Flow Experience, Life Satisfaction and Positive-Negative Affective

Psychological well-being is a sense of satisfaction from the perspective of social psychologists. Since psychological well-being has many positive psychological consequences, it is very important to study the fa Effect of Procrastination on Psychological Well Being: Mediating Role of Flow Experience, Positive-Negative Affective and Life Satisfaction well-being based on educational procrastination and mediator role of flow experience, positive-negative affective and life satisfaction. This study was a descriptive correlational of the structural equation modeling. The statistical population consisted of all high school students from city of Rey at year of 1396-1397 and participants were 464 students who were selected by clustering random sampling. The students were replied to psychological wellbeing (1989), Satisfaction with Life Scale (2001), Educational procrastination (2011), flow experience (2003) and positive-negative affective (1988) scales. Data were analyzed using partial least squares approach (PLS). Among the significant findings of this study, we can mention the direct effect of procrastination on life satisfaction and positive affection as well as the mediator roles of life satisfaction and positive affection on psychological well-being. In sum, the current model of the present study could explain 54% of the variance of psychological well-being. According to results of this research, it is suggested that appropriate educational programs be developed by that social and educational psychologists to improve the psychological well-being and reduce procrastination based on positive emotions and satisfaction of students' life.