Contribution of Arnett's inventory of sensation seeking and Zuckerman's sensation seeking scale to the differentiation of athletes engaged in high and low risk sports

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 763-768

  Zarevski, Predrag ^a   Marušić, Iris ^a   Zolotić, Sanja ^a   Bunjevac, Tomislav ^a   Vukosav, Željko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

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EID: 0032186507     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00119-6     Document Type: Article

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