When do you procrastinate? Sleep quality and social sleep lag jointly predict self-regulatory failure at work

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 983-1002

  Kühnel, Jana ^a   Bledow, Ronald ^b   Feuerhahn, Nicolas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Occupational Insurance Association (VBG Ihre gesetzliche Unfallversicherung)   (Germany)

Author keywords

chronotype; diary study; procrastination; self regulation; sleep

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958211438     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.2084     Document Type: Article

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