"If I'm not nervous, I'm worried, does that make sense?": The use of emotion concepts by athletes in accounts of performance

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Locke, Abigail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Athletes; Discursive psychology; Emotion; Sport psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342935751     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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