Assessing reasons for sports career termination: Development of the Athletes' Retirement Decision Inventory (ARDI)

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 407-421

  Fernandez, Anne ^a   Stephan, Yannick ^a   Fouquereau, Evelyne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Athletes' Retirement Decision Inventory (ARDI); Athletes' sports career termination; Push pull anti push anti pull; Retirement decision process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747766798     PISSN: 14690292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4528-X_20     Document Type: Article

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