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Open research questions in Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies

390 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,584 Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • The impact of academic procrastination on online learning engagement has not been closely examined. The underlying mechanisms of academic procrastination are not well understood. There is a need to identify the factors contributing to decreased levels of online learning engagement.

    Students’ social anxiety, fear of missing out, and academic procrastination and their effect on online learning engagement: a mixed-methods study · 2026 · DOI

  • The absence of a randomised control group constrained causal inference. The study had limited sample size and limited generalisability to other populations. The study had limited measurement of implementation indicators, including independent fidelity ratings, homework completion, opt-out reasons, stakeholder feedback, and cost data.

    Targeting Self-Oriented Perfectionism Through a School-Based CBT-Informed Program Integrating Excellencism: A Pilot Study in Final-Year High School Girls · 2026 · DOI

  • The viability of excellencism within school-based interventions remains untested. There is a need to investigate the effectiveness of interventions that integrate excellencism principles alongside strategies targeting self-critical evaluative processes. The study aims to address the gap in the literature by providing an initial applied test of the integration of CBT with excellencism in school delivery.

    Targeting Self-Oriented Perfectionism Through a School-Based CBT-Informed Program Integrating Excellencism: A Pilot Study in Final-Year High School Girls · 2026 · DOI

  • Small sample size of 14 participants, - Limited to UK HE institution, - Participants were all white

    Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could explore the experiences of FGS from diverse backgrounds, - Investigate the impact of institutional support on student retention and success

    Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of emotional connection between students and instructors in online learning environments. The negative effect of academic burnout on online learning engagement. The challenge of developing effective strategies to enhance online learning engagement and mitigate academic burnout.

    A study on the impact of perceived teacher emotional support on university students’ online learning engagement: the mediating role of academic burnout · 2025 · DOI

  • Investigating the effects of cultural scripts on stressors and detachment in global higher education, - Examining the impact of digital immersion on psychological wellbeing in collectivist contexts

    Psychological detachment in Chinese higher education: a multitheoretical model of academic stress, cultural pressure, and coping resources · 2025 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in understanding how cultural obligations and digital immersion affect psychological detachment in Chinese university students. It also highlights the need to examine the mediating roles of resilience, self-esteem, and perceived social support in the context of Chinese higher education.

    Psychological detachment in Chinese higher education: a multitheoretical model of academic stress, cultural pressure, and coping resources · 2025 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in understanding the complex relationship between burnout, wellbeing, and academic achievement anxiety in physical education students. There is a need for targeted interventions to address burnout and academic achievement anxiety in physical education students.

    Psychological wellbeing as a buffer against burnout and anxiety in academic achievement situations among physical education students · 2025 · DOI

  • Recruiting participants who are willing to share their experiences of parental burnout, - Ensuring that the research approach does not further undermine the perceived parental competence of the participants, - Analyzing sensitive and underinvestigated issues related to human experience

    How do exhausted parents experience their interactions with their children? A qualitative and participative study · 2024 · DOI

  • Further research is needed to explore the relationship between burnout, Psychological wellbeing, and Academic achievement anxiety in different populations. Longitudinal studies could be conducted to examine the causal relationships between these variables. Interventions aimed at fostering emotional resilience, self-acceptance, and personal growth could be developed and tested.

    Psychological wellbeing as a buffer against burnout and anxiety in academic achievement situations among physical education students · 2025 · DOI

  • While the psychological consequences of impostor phenomenon are well known, there are open questions about how structures in graduate education (e.

    Embedded Gatekeeping, Comparativeness, and Hidden Curriculum Create Feelings of Impostorism for Biology Doctoral Students · 2026 · DOI

  • Background Parental burnout affects approximately 3%–8% of mothers in Western populations, with particularly high rates in Poland, yet factors that explain parental burnout remain poorly understood.

    Exhausted Minds: Maternal Reflective Functioning and Parental Burnout in Mothers of Young Children in A One‐Year Longitudinal Study · 2026 · DOI

  • While physical activity benefits sleep health, the reasons for sustained engagement and the role of motivation quality in downstream outcomes remain understudied.

    Associations of autonomous motivation and physical activity with mobile phone addiction and bedtime procrastination: a cross-sectional study · 2026 · DOI

  • Research stress is a pervasive challenge for early-career faculty in highly competitive academic environments, yet its psychological mechanisms and boundary conditions in shaping scholarly productivity remain insufficiently understood.

    How research stress influences academic productivity: the mediating role of academic resilience and the moderating roles of work and family support · 2026 · DOI

  • While often attributed to self-regulation failures, the specific cognitive mechanisms underlying procrastination remain unclear.

    Lower metacognitive abilities predict procrastination: a cross-sectional study of a healthy adult sample · 2026 · DOI

  • Limitations include the cross-sectional, self-reported, single-site design and a coarse personality measure, which restrict causal inference and generalizability; longitudinal replication with improved measurement is warranted.

    Socio-ecological correlates of exercise procrastination and exercise addiction: a preliminary exploratory study using a single-university sample · 2026 · DOI

  • Exercise procrastination and exercise addiction reflect two maladaptive patterns at opposite ends of the physical-activity spectrum, yet their socio-ecological correlates among university students remain unclear.

    Socio-ecological correlates of exercise procrastination and exercise addiction: a preliminary exploratory study using a single-university sample · 2026 · DOI

  • To build on these insights, future research should explore interventions designed to enhance personal resources, potentially increasing awareness and the utilisation of self-care among HE educators.

    Higher education educators’ wellbeing: the influence of self-care practices · 2025 · DOI

  • Current research indicates that learning burnout is closely related to metacognitive ability and learning engagement, yet the influencing mechanisms among the three remain unclear.

    Metacognitive Ability and Learning Burnout in College Students: Chain Mediation Through Learning Engagement · 2025 · DOI

  • Although the association between stress and pain is recognised, little is known about links between chronic pain and stress arising from perfectionist expectations.

    Perfectionism, self-compassion, and general self-efficacy between those with and without chronic pain · 2025 · DOI

  • We addressed this gap in knowledge by testing a new operationalisation that incorporates the three necessary and sufficient conditions of bedtime procrastination.

    Investigating the role of goal motives in predicting bedtime procrastination using a daily diary study design: a registered report · 2025 · DOI

  • Additionally, longitudinal data could be used in various disciplines to examine differences in mediation effects across demographic variables, and cultural differences could be explored in samples from diverse cultural contexts.

    The relationship between digital burnout and academic procrastination and the mediating roles of life satisfaction and the fatigue in this relationship · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research may investigate potential strategies to reduce the effects of digital burnout on academic procrastination (e.

    The relationship between digital burnout and academic procrastination and the mediating roles of life satisfaction and the fatigue in this relationship · 2025 · DOI

  • However, the relationship between loneliness and academic burnout in online formal learning has not been well explored in previous studies.

    Managing online learning burnout via investigating the role of loneliness during COVID-19 · 2025 · DOI

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