The Dual Nature Of Perfectionism In Sports Summary

As I read the article written by Joachim Stoeber which was name “The Dual Nature of Perfectionism in Sports: Relationships with Emotion, Motivation, and Performance” I learned and found various ideas that caught my attention on the concept of perfectionism in athletes. One of the ideas I found interesting was that when an athlete undergoes through perfectionistic striving that are positive in reality they can often be overthrown by negative perfectionism strivings. I found it eye grabbing because usually a positive effect on an athlete should be a good sign towards his mental performance in perfectionism, but when the true verdict is that Negative perfectionism has more power in this case in being the more dominant striving as in the article it is mentioned that positive perfectionism strivings are only seen in an athlete when there is an overlap occurring among perfectionist concerns and strivings and they are both being controlled by the athlete.

I found it interesting as in the article it is obviously seen that the self defeating and negative outcomes in collaboration with behavior that produces unhealthy patterns are noticeable on athletes that are identified by a personality that is extremely perfectionistic and are usually have their attention and focus cognitively on obtaining perfection. The third idea I found interesting was how even though perfectionistic concerns and strivings have an influence towards the behavior of athletes, they aren’t quite observable when looked at directly as it is in the mind of the athlete. I found this idea interesting as through the article I learned that the differences in an individual on their perfectionistic concerns and their strivings primarly express themselves onto the thoughts of