Challenge and threat states: Cardiovascular, affective, and cognitive responses to a sports-related speech task

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 252-262

  Meijen, Carla ^a   Jones, Marc V ^b   Sheffield, David ^c   McCarthy, Paul J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^d GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular responses; Cognitive appraisal; Control; Emotion; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897961464     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-013-9370-5     Document Type: Article

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