The explanatory power of "regulatory focus"-theory in sport;Zur erklärungskraft der Žregulatory focus" theorie im sport

Zeitschrift fur Sportpsychologie

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 80-90

  Memmert, Daniel ^a,c   Plessner, Henning ^b   Maaßmann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motivation; Self regulation; Sport performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649103779     PISSN: 16125010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026/1612-5010.16.3.80     Document Type: Article

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