The need to win is not adaptive: The need to win, coping strategies, hope and self-esteem

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 805-808

  Franken, Robert E ^a   Brown, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 0030161502     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0191-8869(96)00026-8     Document Type: Article

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