Academic Procrastination and Self-Handicapping: Gender Differences in Response to Noncontingent Feedback

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 87-102

  Meyer, Cheryl L ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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