Personality, procrastination and cheating in students from different university degree programs;Personalidad, procrastinación y conducta deshonesta en alumnado de distintos grados universitarios

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 451-472

  Clariana, Mercè ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic procrastination; Choice of degree course; Dishonest behaviour in the classroom or cheating; Personality dimensions; RIASEC; University degrees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885463488     PISSN: 16995880     EISSN: 16962095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14204/ejrep.30.13030     Document Type: Article

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