Students with lower self-control tend to procrastinate with short-form video, study finds

Who among us hasn't put off doing something we know we need to do while scrolling through just a few more TikToks, Instagram reels or YouTube shorts? New research from the William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Kansas has found that college students with lower self-control, stronger habitual short-form video use and who tended to use them to escape and fulfill the need to belong were prone to procrastinating via such short clips.