Academic Procrastination: Psychological Antecedents Revisited

Australian Psychologist

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 36-46

  Steel, Piers ^a   Klingsieck, Katrin B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic procrastination; Counselling; Delay; Interventions; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955310408     PISSN: 00050067     EISSN: 17429544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ap.12173     Document Type: Article

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