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    Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations

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    Authors
    Gucciardi, Daniel
    Mahoney, J.
    Jalleh, Geoffrey
    Donovan, Robert
    Parkes, J.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Gucciardi, Daniel F. and Mahoney, John and Jalleh, Geoffrey and Donovan, Robert J. and Parkes, Jarred. 2012. Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 34 (2): pp. 159-183.
    Source Title
    Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
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    http://journals.humankinetics.com/AcuCustom/SiteName/Documents/DocumentItem/01_Gucciardi_JSEP_2010_0213.pdf
    ISSN
    0895-2779
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43343
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Although there is an emerging body of research that has examined perfectionistic clusters in the general population, few studies have explored such profiles in athlete samples. The purposes of this research were to explore perfectionistic profiles within a sample of elite athletes and the differences between them on key motivational variables. A sample of 423 elite athletes (179 males, 244 females) aged between 14 and 66 years (M = 25.64; SD = 8.57) from a variety of team (e.g., rowing, hockey, baseball, rugby) and individual sports (e.g., cycling, athletics, triathlon, gymnastics) completed a multisection questionnaire including measures of sport perfectionism, motivation regulation, achievement goals, and fear of failure. Cluster analyses revealed the existence of three perfectionism profiles, namely, nonperfectionists, maladaptive perfectionists, and adaptive perfectionists. Subsequent analyses generally supported the robustness of these perfectionism profiles in terms of differential motivational orientations (achievement goals, fear of failure, and motivation regulation) in hypothesized directions. Overall, the differences in motivational orientations between the three clusters supported a categorical conceptualization of perfectionism.

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