Motivational climate and attitudes towards exercise in Greek senior high school: A year-long intervention

European Journal of Sport Science

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1-12

  Christodoulidis, Triantafylos ^a   Papaioannou, Athanasios ^a   Digelidis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Goal orientations; Intervention; Motivational climate; Physical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644357676     PISSN: 17461391     EISSN: 15367290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17461390100071405     Document Type: Article

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