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Perfectionism and Reactions to Mistakes in Competitive Curling

  • Author / Creator
    Lizmore, Michael R.
  • This study assessed the degree to which athletes (199 male, 144 female, M age = 30.78 years, SD = 7.93) with different profiles of perfectionism differed in terms of their emotional and cognitive responses to personal failure in low- and high-criticality situations in the sport of curling. Cluster analyses produced three clusters of athletes—labelled, healthy perfectionists, unhealthy perfectionists, and non-perfectionists—that closely resembled perfectionism profiles within Stoeber and Otto’s (2006) tripartite model of perfectionism. Results of a repeated measures MANOVA indicated that, irrespective of situation criticality, healthy perfectionists had lower anger/dejection and higher self-confidence/optimism following mistakes than unhealthy perfectionists (ps < .005). Results also indicated that, irrespective of perfectionism, athletes reported lower anger/dejection and higher self-confidence/optimism following mistakes in low- as opposed to high-criticality situations (ps < .005). Results reinforce the importance of considering personality and situational characteristics when assessing athletes’ emotional and cognitive reactions to mistakes in sport.

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  • Graduation date
    Fall 2013
  • Type of Item
    Thesis
  • Degree
    Master of Arts
  • DOI
    https://doi.org/10.7939/R3TM72B8B
  • License
    This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.