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Peer reviewedFerrari, Joseph R.; Keane, Sabrina M.; Wolfe, Raymond N.; Beck, Brett L. – Research in Higher Education, 1998
Study of students (n=546) from two colleges found selective college students procrastinated more. Academic procrastination was motivated by task aversion at selective college, by fear of task failure at nonselective college. Nonselective college procrastinators more often used both legitimate and nonlegitimate excuses. Excuses were self-generated…
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