Goal difficulty, anxiety and performance

Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 319-333

  Jones, Graham ^a   Cale, Andrew ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Goal difficulty; Perceptuo motor performance

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL;

ANXIETY; GOAL DIFFICULTY; PERCEPTUO-MOTOR PERFORMANCE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF ESTEEM; VELOCITY;

EID: 0031104748     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401397188170     Document Type: Article

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