The Recall of Completed and Noncompleted Tasks Through Daily Logs to Measure Procrastination

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 255-265

  Scher, Steven J ^b   Ferrari, Joseph R ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034582331     PISSN: 08861641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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