Psychometric evaluation of the Swedish version of the pure procrastination scale, the irrational procrastination scale, and the susceptibility to temptation scale in a clinical population

Table 4 Rotated component matrix for a two factor solution of the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS)

		Factor 1	Factor 2
IPS1	I put things off so long that my well-being or efficiency unnecessarily suffers	.69
IPS2	If there is something I should do, I get to it before attending to lesser tasks (R)		.72
IPS3	My life would be better if I did some activities or tasks earlier	.68
IPS4	When I should be doing one thing, I will do another	.55
IPS5	At the end of the day, I know I could have spent the time better	.64
IPS6	I spend my time wisely (R)	.43	.46
IPS7	I delay tasks beyond what is reasonable	.64
IPS8	I procrastinate	.64
IPS9	I do everything when I believe it needs to be done (R)		.79

Note: Items designated with an (R) are reversed, meaning that a score of 5 instead equals 1. Extraction method: Principal component analysis. Rotation method: Varimax-rotation with Keiser normalization. Coefficients smaller than .40 are suppressed.

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