Affective responses to success and failure: : A study of winning and losing in competitive rugby

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-99

  Wilson, George V ^a   Kerr, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Affect; ; Losing; ; Rugby; ; Stress; ; Winning;

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002098296     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00226-8     Document Type: Article

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