WWHI PROPOSAL

What:

My research area is procrastination among the recent graduate creative industries freelancer. The precise question I will be addressing is How Can Recent Graduated Freelancers in Creative Industries Work Healthy with Procrastination. And my research mainly focus on two question: How can procrastinating be a motivation and How can people stop avoid starting do something.

Why:

In the post pandemic era, people working from home or freelancing is prevailing. Besides, based on the Web3.0 developing and the popularity of stream-media, creative industries are having more and more freelancers.

Time management and mental health related to procrastination can be big problems to our generation.

I made a questionnaire with 442 respondents, most of whom are Generation Z. According to the survey, 97.06% of the respondents think they having a issue with procrastination. 

It is important to remember that everyone procrastinates. However, problematic procrastination can be distinguished from more general procrastination, by how bad the negative consequences are of us not following through on things.

How

1. AMUSEMENT

My inspiration came from the book <Creatives on Creativities>, which contains 44 artists’ interview. I found out that deadline and procrastination sometimes can be a powerful tool in the creative works. In the meanwhile, half of the respondents in my survey think there are positive effects of procrastination. In a western Australian government website, a research shows there are negative and positive circle when you are procrastinating and the website provides several practical strategies to stop it, such as ‘using momentum’， ‘prime time’， ‘prime place’， ‘plan reward’，etc. I summarized those strategies into one word ‘AMUSEMENT’. And ‘AMUSEMENT’ is the first element of my intervention.

• NIGHT

Base on the ‘prime time’ strategy, we should start our work at a time which we are most energetic, so I tried to find out what time is best for my stakeholders. The <Creatives on Creativities> shows many 30-50 year-old artists are morning person. However, in my survey, more than 70% Gen Z people suggest evening and midnight are the best working time. Therefore I choose night as the prime time and the second element of my intervention.

• GROUP

I read many articles in the psychology area to figure out the cause and solutions of the procrastination. There is a study investigated in 2021 shows that procrastinators get rewards from interdependence group outcome, their rating on procrastination were lower than non-interdependence individuals.

 herefore, ‘group’ is the third element of the intervention.

Procrastination Night Intervention

 I combined the 3 elements together and made a conclusion that I could holding Procrastination Night Intervention. Here intervention also means its normal definition: an occurrence in which a person with a problem (such as a drug addiction) is confronted by a group (as of friends or family members) whose purpose is to compel the person to acknowledge and deal with the problem.

 So in my intervention, everyone bring their difficult tasks to the intervention. And we start doing the most difficult work together. Then, everyone get rewards together (such as party). And I made I schedule to develop my intervention in order to scale it up during this year.

What If

At the end of the course, the project will investigate whether night working interventions can relief the procrastinating anxiety and motivate working of recent graduates in creative industries

By a entertaining way to face procrastination, the project is going to helping Gen Z stay healthy with their lifestyle.