Goal orientation and beliefs about the causes of success among greek track and field athletes

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 105, Issue 3 I, 2007, Pages 927-938

  Veligekas, Panayiotis ^a   Mylonas, Kostas ^a   Zervas, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SPORT; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GOALS; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY; TRACK AND FIELD;

EID: 38049110839     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.105.3.927-938     Document Type: Article

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