Giving yourself a good beating: Appraisal, attribution, rumination, and counterfactual thinking

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue CSSI-3, 2009, Pages 5-12

  Uphill, Mark A ^a   Dray, Katie ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adversity; Coping; Mental toughness; Retrospective cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957589426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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