Perfectionism Team Sports

This article provides an in-depth report regarding the correlation between existent aspects of perfectionism and the ability of an adolescent to succeed in his or her participation on a sports team. An experiment was conducted based on the assumption that there are two “dimensions of perfectionism”: one which arises due to the individual’s exceptionally high personal standards (PSP), and another which is induced by the expectations of society and the fear of making mistakes (ECP). Through the authors’ experimentation, they were able to conclude that children with high levels of PSP and low levels of ECP generally had a more positive experience with the activity; thus, those with predominantly personally-motivated perfectionism had more success in their participation on a sports team and were able to extract more benefits from their involvement.

The authors of this article are motivated by the research, or lack thereof, of writers within the topic before them. Therefore, the authors’ purpose lies within the previously neglected review of the combination of PSP and ECP within the individual, rather than focusing on the presence of only PSP or only ECP. Although I learned a lot of information concerning
I plan to connect the different classifications of perfectionism to my own personal experiences, in hopes to inform others that such a quality can have negative effects on a person’s behavior. I also intend to build on this research to find out how different degrees of perfectionism contribute to the mental processes of an individual, mainly related to stress. Additionally, I will extend the research presented in the article to explore a greater number of benefits that team sports provide in adolescents, mostly focusing in on what is classified as PSP