Self-focus, gender, and habitual self-handicapping: Do they make a difference in behavioral self-handicapping?

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-56

  Kimble, Charles E ^a   Hirt, Edward R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 13744255980     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2005.33.1.43     Document Type: Article

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