PEDS303 Lecture Notes - Avoidance Coping, Motivation, Association Football

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS303
• Professor: John Dunn

Document Summary

This cause you to be angry: when our goals are too high, we are making ourselves vulnerable to anger. Unhealthy perfectionists: believe that personal mistakes shouldn"t happen, believe that perceived performance standards imposed by others are unfair or unwarranted, set extremely high personal performance standards that are frequently unattainable. Anger is magnified when above perceptions occur in situations where there is endangerment of personally meaningful goals (ex. Results: vallance demonstrated that unhealthy perfectionist athletes (youth hockey) are most prone to experiencing anger following mistakes in competition. Do we want a maladaptive perfectionist on the ice when its a tied 3-3 game with little time left in regulation. When athletes imaginged themselves making mistakes in high intensity situations, their anger rose. Additional correlates of healthy and unhealthy perfectionism in sport. 3. ) task/ ego orientation (canadian football) health perfectionists have a high level of task orientation and low level of ego orientation. They judge success based on personal mastery and development.