Project systems of procrastinators: A personal project-analytic and action control perspective

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1771-1780

  Blunt, Allan ^a   Pychyl, Timothy A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action control; Action orientation; Personal projects; Procrastination; State orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 17344373356     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.11.019     Document Type: Article

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