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Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
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Volume 22, 2009 - Issue 1
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Anxiety symptom interpretation in high-anxious, defensive high-anxious, low-anxious and repressor sport performers

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Pages 91-100 | Received 01 Jun 2007, Published online: 19 Dec 2008

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