Seeing the "we" in "me" sports: The need to consider individual sport team environments

Canadian Psychology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 301-308

  Evans, M Blair ^a   Eys, Mark A ^a   Bruner, Mark W ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

exercise; group dynamics; interdependence; psychology; sport; sport psychology; typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873592804     PISSN: 07085591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030202     Document Type: Article

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