Performance Slumps in Sport: Prevention and Coping

Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, Three-Volume Set

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 833-841

  Grove, J Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 80053569220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-657410-3/00809-6     Document Type: Chapter

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