Relationship of perceived and actual motor competence in children

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 94, Issue 3 PART 2, 2002, Pages 1059-1070

  Raudsepp, Lennart ^a   Liblik, Raino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENDURANCE; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0036598204     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2002.94.3c.1059     Document Type: Article

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