Relation of dispositional optimism with burnout among athletes

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 693-698

  Chen, Lung Hung ^a   Kee, Ying Kee ^b   Tsai, Ying Mei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN SPORT UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPORT; STATISTICS; TEMPERAMENT; VOLLEYBALL;

ADOLESCENT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPORTS; TEMPERAMENT; TRANSLATING; VOLLEYBALL;

EID: 49149119856     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.106.3.693-698     Document Type: Article

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