Procrastination and perceptions of past, present, and future

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-28

  Jackson, Todd ^a   Fritch, April ^a   Nagasaka, Takeo ^a   Pope, Laurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Procrastination; Time perspectives; Time structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845218729     PISSN: 1541745X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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