An empirical look at Walsh and Golins' adventure education process model: Relationships between antecedent factors, perceptions of characteristics of an adventure education experience, and changes in self-efficacy

Journal of Leisure Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-106

  Sibthorp, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adventure education; Empirical model testing; Outdoor recreation

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION;

EID: 0038115422     PISSN: 00222216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18666/jlr-2003-v35-i1-611     Document Type: Article

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