This study seeks to investigate the coping styles due to the importance of stress, its determinants and destructive consequences in modern society in addition to its deep-rooted effects on the identity. Therefore, a research is conducted on 400 male and female samples at the age ranges of 23 to 60 years in order to investigate the roles of procrastination and self-criticism among coping and identity styles. The research has prediction method and the subjects are evaluated according to Endler and Parker's Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS), Berzonsky's Identity style inventory, Lay's procrastination scale, and Thompson and Zuroff's self-criticism scale. Data is analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics, and multivariate regression analysis.
According to the results of statistical analyses, there are significant relationships between informative, diffused, and normative identity styles and commitment with procrastination; and also between the informative style and internalized self-criticism (ISC), between diffused identity style and Comparative Self-Criticism (CSC), between procrastination and emotion-focused and problem-focused coping styles, and between emotion-focused and problem-focused coping styles and internalized self-criticism (ISC).
