Intercollegiate perfectionistic athletes' perspectives on achievement: Contributions to the understanding and assessment of perfectionism in sport

International Journal of Sport Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 271-297

  Gotwals, John K ^a   Spencer Cavaliere, Nancy ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Athletes; Domain specific; Healthy; Mixed methods; Perfectionism; Qualitative; Tripartite model; Unhealthy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915733890     PISSN: 00470767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7352/IJSP2014.45.271     Document Type: Review

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