The effects of a self-talk intervention on elementary students' motor task performance

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 183, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 924-930

  Zourbanos, Nikos ^a   Hatzigeorgiadis, Antonis ^a   Bardas, Dimitris ^a   Theodorakis, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

mental strategies; physical education; self talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879536269     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2012.693487     Document Type: Article

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