The intensity and directional interpretation of anxiety: Fluctuations throughout competition and relationship to performance

Sport Psychologist

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-54

  Butt, Joanne ^a   Weinberg, Robert ^a   Horn, Thelma ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0043175281     PISSN: 08884781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.17.1.35     Document Type: Article

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