Choking under pressure: The role of fear of negative evaluation

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 60-68

  Mesagno, Christopher ^a   Harvey, Jack T ^a   Janelle, Christopher M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotion; Impression management; Self presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054101106     PISSN: 14690292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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