Commentary: 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 NOV, 2016, Pages

  Elbe, Anne Marie ^a   Jensen, Stine Nylandsted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attributional style; Cohesion; Depression; Maladaptive perfectionism; Mental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006381844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01782     Document Type: Note

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