Examining the self of chronic procrastinators: Actual, ought, and undesired attributes

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-123

  Ferrari, Joseph R ^a   Driscoll, Mark ^b   Díaz Morales, Juan Francisco ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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