Comparison of sport achievement orientation of male wheelchair basketball athletes with congenital and acquired disabilities

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 726-732

  Skordilis, E K ^a,b   Skafida, F A ^a   Chrysagis, N ^a   Nikitaras, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISABLED PERSON; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPORT; STATISTICS; WHEELCHAIR;

ACHIEVEMENT; BASKETBALL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPORTS; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 33947165284     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.103.3.726-732     Document Type: Article

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