Measuring resilience in competitive tennis players: Psychometric properties of the Resilience Scale for Adults

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 553-565

  Cowden, Richard G ^a,b   Meyer Weitz, Anna ^b   Oppong Asante, Kwaku ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Instrument; resilience; resilience scale for adults; tennis; validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994852224     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: 2078208X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0081246316644151     Document Type: Article

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