Procrastination and Self-Regulatory Failure: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 203-212

  Pychyl, Timothy A ^a   Flett, Gordon L ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Depression; Motivation; Procrastination; Self regulation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869114735     PISSN: 08949085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10942-012-0149-5     Document Type: Article

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