A person-oriented examination of perfectionism and slump-related coping in female intercollegiate volleyball players

International Journal of Sport Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 298-324

  Dunn, John G H ^a   Dunn, Janice Causgrove ^a   Gamache, Vania ^a   Holt, Nicholas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coping; Healthy perfectionism; Sport; Unhealthy perfectionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915735632     PISSN: 00470767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7352/IJSP2014.45.298     Document Type: Article

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