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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DEPRESSION AND PROCRASTINATION AMONG CLINICALLY DIAGNOSED DEPRESSIVE PATIENTS AND GENERAL POPULATION OF PUNJAB

The objective of current study is to explore prevalence of depression and procrastination among general population who never visited any hospital or any other place for management of their sadistic life and to compare level of depression among clinically diagnosed depressive patients and general population of Punjab. It was core objective of study to explore whether procrastination is the cause of depression and for this purpose relationship between depression and procrastination is made. The sample N=240 comprised of 120 depressive individuals (60=male, 60=female) and 120 individual from general population (60=male and 60=female) living in Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad cities were selected through Purposive and snow ball sampling technique from different hospitals and residential areas. Beck depression inventory (BDI) by Aaron.T.Beck, (1971) and procrastination scale by Tuck man, (1991) were used as tools of the study. It was found out that depression is positively correlated with procrastination. Level of depression is high among married as compared to unmarried and Level of depression is high in males as compared to females. The level of procrastination is less in females as compared to males. Level of procrastination is low among unmarried as compared to married.