Account-making: A model for understanding and resolving distressful reactions to retirement from sport

Sport Psychologist

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 52-67

  Grove, J Robert ^a   Lavallee, David ^b   Gordon, Sandy ^a   Harvey, John H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

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EID: 0041193002     PISSN: 08884781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.12.1.52     Document Type: Article

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