Putting off until Tomorrow What is Better Done Today: Academic Procrastination as a Function of Motivation Toward College Work

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 15-34

  Brownlow, Sheila ^a   Reasinger, Renee D ^a  

^a CATAWBA COLLEGE   (United States)

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