Procrastination: A Means of Avoiding Shame or Guilt?

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 167-184

  Fee, Ronda L ^a   Tangney, June P ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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