Effective versus ineffective coping in sport

Coping in Sport: Theory, Methods, and Related Constructs

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 261-276

  Nicholls, Adam R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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