"I'll go to therapy, eventually": Procrastination, stress and mental health

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-180

  Stead, Rebecca ^a   Shanahan, Matthew J ^a   Neufeld, Richard W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Mental health; Procrastination; Stress; Treatment delay

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952887023     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.028     Document Type: Article

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