Motivations to exercise as a function of personality characteristics, age, and gender

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 165-174

  Davis, Caroline ^a   Fox, John ^a   Brewer, Howard ^a   Ratusny, Dorothy ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0001763958     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(95)00030-A     Document Type: Article

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