Intrapersonal achievement goals and underlying reasons among long distance runners: Their relation with race experience, self-talk, and running time

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 288-310

  Delrue, Jochen ^a   Mouratidis, Athanasios ^b   Haerens, Leen ^a   De Muynck, Gert Jan ^a   Aelterman, Nathalie ^a   Vansteenkiste, Maarten ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Achievement Goal Approach; Basic Need Satisfaction; Flow; Intrapersonal Goals; Self Determination Theory; Self talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992653724     PISSN: 00332879     EISSN: 2054670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5334/pb.280     Document Type: Article

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