Keeping your cool: A case study of a female explorer's solo north pole expedition

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 333-337

  Devonport, Tracey J ^a   Lane, Andrew M ^a   Lloyd, Juliette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ENGLISH INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coping strategies; emotion regulation; polar exploration; stressors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAVEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ARCTIC REGIONS; EXPEDITIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 82755160614     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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