The role of self-regulatory skills in sport and academic performances of elite youth athletes

Talent Development and Excellence

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-275

  Jonker, Laura ^a   Elferink Gemser, Marije T ^a,b   Visscher, Chris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academics; Metacognition; Motivation; Sport; Talent development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865765759     PISSN: 18690459     EISSN: 18692885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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