bedtime procrastination

English

Etymology

Coined by Dutch researcher Floor M. Kroese in 2014.

Noun

bedtime procrastination (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A failure of self-regulation wherein one fails to go to bed at the intended time, despite no external circumstances preventing one from doing so.
   • 2014 June 19th, Floor M. Kroese, Denise T. D. De Ridder, Catharine Evers, Marieke A. Adriaanse, “Bedtime procrastination: introducing a new area of procrastination” (article № 611), in Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology, volume 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, article title

Derived terms

• revenge bedtime procrastination

Translations

psychology: unforced failure to go to bed at the time one intends

Further reading

• bedtime procrastination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia