Volitional action and inaction in the lives of undergraduate students: State orientation, procrastination and proneness to boredom

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 837-846

  Blunt, Allan ^a   Pychyl, Timothy A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0032089259     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00018-X     Document Type: Article

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