Age, sex, conscientiousness, and thinking style predict academic avoidance

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-128

  Genovese, Jeremy ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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