Experiencing the temporally extended self: Initial support for the role of affective states, vivid mental imagery, and future self-continuity in the prediction of academic procrastination

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 50-56

  Blouin Hudon, Eve Marie C ^a   Pychyl, Timothy A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic procrastination; Future self continuity; Mental imagery; Positive and Negative Affect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930933885     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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