Sports Perfectionism: A Gender Wise Comparison

Abstract

The tendency for athletes to hold themselves to exceptionally high standards and to exhibit behaviours intended to produce faultless performances is known as sports perfectionism. This could entail unrelenting practice, harsh self-criticism, and an unwavering quest of perfection. In this context the study was conducted to establish the contemporary status of sports perfectionism of school-going adolescents. In order to meet the descriptive presentation and comparative analysis, 706 school-going adolescents were selected from Government, Government Sponsored and Government aided secondary and higher secondary schools of West Bengal to consider as sample; and data were collected by administering the Sports Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (John, Dunn, et al., 2005).  As a result, it was observed that, both the male and female adolescents have high sports perfectionism and as seen from comparative analysis there was no gender difference in all the subscales of the sports perfectionism.