This article aimed to adapt for the Brazilian context the Scale of Active Procrastination (SAP), gathering evidence of validity and reliability. Participants were 216 undergraduate students, with a mean age of 25.9 years (SD=8.40). They answered to the SAP and demographic questions. Results of confirmatory factor analyses, after testing alternative models, allowed to prove as more appropriate the structure with four factors: preference for pressure (α=0.72), ability to meet deadlines (α=0.72), satisfaction with the results (α=0.66), and intentional decision (α=0.61), which presented acceptable fit indexes (GFI=0.91 and RMSEA=0.06). Such factors showed evidence of convergent validity, but two of them did not differ sufficiently. In conclusion, these findings support the psychometric adequacy of this instrument, which shows evidence of validity and reliability.
Procrastination; Validity; Reliability; Scale
