procrastination is considerably more widespread in students than in the general population, with over 70 percent of students reporting procrastination for assignments at some point. a 2014 panel study from germany among several thousand university students found that increasing academic procrastination increases the frequency of seven different forms of academic misconduct, i.e., using fraudulent excuses, plagiarism, copying from someone else in exams, using forbidden means in exams, carrying forbidden means into exams, copying parts of homework from others, fabrication or falsification of data and the variety of academic misconduct. this study argues that academic misconduct can be seen as a means to cope with the negative consequences of academic procrastination such as performance impairment.