Metamotivational dominance, states and injuries in risk and safe sports

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 503-518

  Cogan, Nicola ^a   Brown, R I F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0041413418     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00259-1     Document Type: Article

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