Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations
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 difference...
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| author | Gucciardi, Daniel Mahoney, J. Jalleh, Geoffrey Donovan, Robert Parkes, J. |
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| description | 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-433432017-01-30T15:06:53Z Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations Gucciardi, Daniel Mahoney, J. Jalleh, Geoffrey Donovan, Robert Parkes, J. person-centered analyses achievement goals fear of failure categorical conceptualization cluster analysis 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. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43343 http://journals.humankinetics.com/AcuCustom/SiteName/Documents/DocumentItem/01_Gucciardi_JSEP_2010_0213.pdf Human Kinetics fulltext |
| spellingShingle | person-centered analyses achievement goals fear of failure categorical conceptualization cluster analysis Gucciardi, Daniel Mahoney, J. Jalleh, Geoffrey Donovan, Robert Parkes, J. Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations |
| title | Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations |
| title_full | Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations |
| title_fullStr | Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations |
| title_short | Perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations |
| title_sort | perfectionistic profiles among elite athletes and differences in their motivational orientations |
| topic | person-centered analyses achievement goals fear of failure categorical conceptualization cluster analysis |
| url | http://journals.humankinetics.com/AcuCustom/SiteName/Documents/DocumentItem/01_Gucciardi_JSEP_2010_0213.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43343 |