Impulsiveness and Cognitive Patterns. Understanding the Perfectionistic Responses in Spanish Competitive Junior Athletes
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Materia
Emotional stability Functional perfectionism Young athletes Sport competition Impulsiveness
Fecha
2019-07-16Referencia bibliográfica
González-Hernández J, Capilla Díaz C and Gómez-López M (2019) Impulsiveness and Cognitive Patterns. Understanding the Perfectionistic Responses in Spanish Competitive Junior Athletes. Front. Psychol. 10:1605.
Resumen
This study aims to establish and show profiles of perfectionist beliefs and impulsive
responses according to sport modality and the relationships between all these variables.
Team athletes were expected to show more functional resources than those in combat
or endurance sports. Athletes with functional responses of impulsivity and perfectionism showed
higher perceived self-competence. Athletes with more reflective thoughts, more careful
planning and generally less sensitive to rewards and behaviors were more selfregulated
and planned (functional impulsivity) and showed more moderate relationships
between the most dysfunctional perfectionist beliefs and self-competence. In addition,
perfectionism seems to be useful to the striver athletes that want to be the best, and they are focused on and committed to future goals and performance and selfimprovement.
It is important for coaches and athletes to understand how the processes
of self-regulation (impulsivity) and self-knowledge (perfectionism) could be formed to
try to offer better opportunities for building psychological resources that enhance
high-performance mental abilities.