Self-criticism, motivation, and goal progress of athletes and musicians: A prospective study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 279-283

  Powers, Theodore A ^a   Koestner, Richard ^b   Lacaille, Nathalie ^b   Kwan, Lisa ^c   Zuroff, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous motivation; Goal progress; Negative affect; Self criticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349161495     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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