A test of perfectionistic vulnerability following competitive failure among college athletes

Curran, Thomas ORCID: 0000-0003-2443-5079 and Hill, Andrew P. (2018) A test of perfectionistic vulnerability following competitive failure among college athletes. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 40 (5). 269–279. ISSN 0895-2779

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Abstract

Perfectionism purportedly bestows vulnerability to distress through an interaction with achievement and interpersonal stress. The authors test this by assessing athletes’ perfectionism and subsequent self-conscious emotion following repeated competitive failure. A total of 60 college athletes undertook three 4-min competitive sprint trials on a cycle ergometer and were instructed that they had performed the worst of all competitors on each occasion. Measures of perfectionism (self-oriented and socially prescribed) were taken at baseline and measures of pride, guilt, and shame were taken at baseline and three times following each successive failure. Across the successive failures, self-oriented perfectionism predicted within-person trajectories of decreasing pride and increasing guilt. Socially prescribed perfectionism predicted within-person trajectories of increasing shame and guilt. Furthermore, a combination of high self-oriented and high socially prescribed perfectionism predicted the steepest within-person increases in shame and guilt. Findings support an achievement-specific vulnerability hypothesis whereby those higher in perfectionism experience pronounced distress following competitive failure.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2018 Human Kinetics
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	14 Aug 2019 09:48
Last Modified:	20 Dec 2024 00:35
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101356

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