Comparison of athletes' proneness to depressive symptoms in individual and team sports: Research on psychological mediators in junior elite athletes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue JUN, 2016, Pages

  Nixdorf, Insa ^a   Frank, Raphael ^a   Beckmann, Jürgen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attribution; Depression; Individual sports; Junior elite athletes; Team sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979994353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00893     Document Type: Article

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