%0 Journal Article
%T The indirect effects of perfectionism on athletes' self-views through maladaptive emotion regulation.
%A Minichiello H
%A Reasonover M
%A Fuglestad P
%J Front Psychol
%V 15
%N 0
%D 2024
%M 38979064
%F 4.232
%R 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1373461
%X <B>UNASSIGNED: </B>In general, increased levels of perfectionism have been associated with increased levels of burnout, heightened levels of depression and anxiety, lowered self-esteem, and poorer overall performance, yet perfectionistic strivings within athletes have also been associated with lower burnout and better performance in some contexts.<BR><B>UNASSIGNED: </B>The current study investigated whether emotion regulation strategies would indirectly link perfectionism with self-esteem in young adults who had participated in competitive athletics. Two hundred and fifty-three primarily white (60.0 %), female (83.0 %) undergraduate students who had participated in competitive athletics completed a series of questionnaires including: the Self-liking and Self-Competence Scale - Revised, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and the short form of the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale.<BR><B>UNASSIGNED: </B>The PROCESS macro for SPSS was used to examine the indirect association between perfectionism and self-esteem through emotion regulation. Higher self-oriented perfectionism and socially prescribed perfectionism were both indirectly associated with lower self-liking and self-competence through greater catastrophizing and self-blame.<BR><B>UNASSIGNED: </B>For individuals like athletes, who experience internal and external pressures, increased perfectionism may lead to negative self-views through maladaptive emotion regulation. However, longitudinal and experimental work is needed to establish this proposed pattern of relationships.