Gender differences in acquisition of environmental knowledge related to wayfinding behavior, spatial anxiety and self-estimated environmental competencies

Sex Roles

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 71-93

  Schmitz, Sigrid ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0033153813     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018837808724     Document Type: Article

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