The Comparative Research About the Relationship Between TimeManagement and Procrastination for AB Personality Style

To explore about time management and procrastination for AB personality style and the relationship in between, 333 college students are subjected to a questionnaire survey by adopting A-Type Personality Scale, Aitken Procrastination Inventory and Adolescent Time Management Deposition, and the data is analyzed by use of structural equation multi-group comparison. The results showed that:(1)no significant differences are found between procrastination and time management and its each dimension for the AB Personality style students.(2)Procrastination is negatively correlated with time management and its each dimension.(3)The structural equation multi-group comparison finds that it is significantly different on time management disposition in predicting procrastination of different personality style. AB personality style moderates the relationship between time management disposition and procrastination: namely, time self-efficacy can significantly predict type A personality's procrastination; time self-efficacy as well as time monitoring can predict B personality style's procrastination. In term of time management disposition, different interventions can be conducted to reduce their procrastination behaviors for the AB personality style college students.