The social side of self-talk: Relationships between perceptions of support received from the coach and athletes' self-talk

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-414

  Zourbanos, Nikos ^a   Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis ^a   Goudas, Marios ^a   Papaioannou, Athanasios ^a   Chroni, Stiliani ^a   Theodorakis, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antecedents of self talk; Athletes' thoughts; Coaches' behaviour; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957617809     PISSN: 14690292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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