Coping with acute stress in sport: Linking athletes' coping style, coping strategies, affect, and motor performance

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-209

  Anshel, Mark ^a   Anderson, David ^b  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Elite athletes; Sport; Stress; Table tennis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036013114     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800290028486     Document Type: Article

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