Perfectionism and attitudes towards doping in athletes: the mediating role of achievement goal orientations

Perfectionism predicts attitudes towards doping in athletes. It is currently unclear, however, why this the case. To help shed light on particular issue, present study we provided a first examination of whether achievement goal orientations explain (mediate) relationship between perfectionism and doping. A sample 173 athletes (mean age 24.4 years) completed measures perfectionistic strivings, concerns, ego-orientation, task-orientation, Based bias-corrected bootstrapping indirect effects, ego-orientation mediated positive relationships strivings concerns Task-orientation negative In regard, high either dimension have more favourable because tendency to define success as outperforming others. However, those may simultaneously hold less they also improving their own performance.