Hassan Gharayagh Zandi; Mahmoud Mohebi; Sahar Zarei
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Taekwondo athletes experience a lot of pressure during the competition, because they must attack and defend at the same time, In addition, before the competition, the stress of the taekwondo athletes increases and lose weight quickly, In this context, the maintenance of desirable psychological states ...
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Taekwondo athletes experience a lot of pressure during the competition, because they must attack and defend at the same time, In addition, before the competition, the stress of the taekwondo athletes increases and lose weight quickly, In this context, the maintenance of desirable psychological states and success in Taekwondo requires a set of specific psychological factors, such as positive perfectionism and psychological skills. Therefore the aim of this research was to survey the relationship between Sport perfectionism and mental skills in Taekwondo Athletes. Present study research method was descriptive – correlational, Statistic population was included all of from Iranian Taekwondo athletes participated in country championship competition. Samples were 110 males with average age of (23/60 ± 5/84) selected based on random sampling, and completed the Scales of perfectionism and mental skills. The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation and multiple regression (inward method) tests. The results of Pearson correlation revealed that positive perfectionism was positively associated with mental skills of foundation, psychosomatic and cognition, and Negative perfectionism had the negative correlation with these mental skills (p < 0/01). Regression analysis showed that positive and negative perfectionism dimensions predict 40 percent of total mental skills variance (p < 0/05). According to the findings, it seems that dimensions of perfectionism have an important role in selecting mental skills and the level of skills which every Taekwondo Athletes uses is correlated with these dimensions.
Jamal Fazel; Sahar Avazpour; Hamed Alizadeh
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Perfectionism, in fact, is an irrational belief individuals have about themselves and their surroundings. Perfectionists believe that they and their surroundings must be complete and any attempt in life must be without error. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship of positive ...
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Perfectionism, in fact, is an irrational belief individuals have about themselves and their surroundings. Perfectionists believe that they and their surroundings must be complete and any attempt in life must be without error. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship of positive and negative perfectionism with competitive state anxiety. 100 soccer players completed Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale and Competitive State Anxiety Inventory. For data analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship of the two variables of positive and negative perfectionism with competitive state anxiety and multivariate regression was applied to predict competitive state anxiety by positive and negative perfectionism (P=0. 05). The results showed a negative and significant relationship between positive perfectionism and competitive state anxiety and its somatic and cognitive subscales while there was no negative and significant relationship between positive perfectionism and 'self-confidence' competitive state anxiety subscale. In contrast, other findings showed a positive and significant relationship only between negative perfectionism and 'self-confidence' competitive state anxiety subscale while no significant relationship was observed between negative perfectionism and competitive state anxiety and its other subscales. The final results of regression showed that positive and negative perfectionism could predict subscales of competitive state anxiety in non-professional soccer players.