Musician-instrument relationship as a candidate index for professional well-being in musicians

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 171-180

  Simoens, Veerle L ^a,b   Tervaniemi, Mari ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Music performance anxiety; Musician instrument relationship; Professional well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878362552     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030164     Document Type: Article

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