Adult Inventory of Procrastination Scale (AIP): A comparison of models with an Italian sample

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-14

  Mariani, Marco Giovanni ^a   Ferrari, Joseph R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct model; Italian sample; Procrastination; Psychometrics proprieties; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873874451     PISSN: 19726325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4473/TPM19.1.1     Document Type: Article

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