Perfectionism, Fear of Failure, and Affective Responses to Success and Failure: The Central Role of Fear of Experiencing Shame and Embarrassment

Abstract

positive affect after success, whereas perfectionistic concern over mistakes and perceived parental pressure showed a positive relationship with fear of experiencing shame and embarrassment and with negative affect after failure. Moreover, fear of experiencing shame and embarrassment fully mediated the relationship between perfectionistic concern and negative affect and between coach pressure and negative affect. The findings demonstrate that fear of experiencing shame and embarrassment is central in the perfectionism-fear of failure relationship and that perfectionistic concern about mistakes and perceived coach pressure are aspects of perfectionism that predict fear of experiencing shame and embarrassment and negative affect after failure.

Psychometric proprieties of the portuguese version of the frost multidimensional perfectionism scale

“…Correlations between all dimensions of perfectionism and fear of failure reported medium to strong positive correlations and are similar to previous studies (Conroy et al, 2007;Kaye et al, 2008;Sagar & Stoeber, 2009) providing, once more, the concurrent validity of the MPS-F p .…”

“…Frost-MPS's concurrent validity has been ascertained and, as expected, scores have exhibited appropriate convergent validity with measures of sport anxiety and fear of failure (Conroy et al, 2007;Frost & Henderson, 1991;Kawamura et al, 2001;Sagar & Stoeber, 2009), providing additional support for its construct validity. In previous studies, concern over mistakes dimension was strongly correlated with competitive anxiety (Frost & Henderson, 1991;Hall et al, 1998;Kawamura et al, 2001).…”

“…Similar positive correlations between perfectionism concerns over mistakes with all five fears of failure were identified in Kaye et al (2008) study. Sagar and Stoeber (2009) showed that concern over mistakes predicted higher levels of all fears of failure.…”

Perfectionism and Performance

“…This represents a problem because perfectionistic concerns-while not necessarily leading to impaired performance-have shown close links with characteristics and processes that may impair performance. Whereas perfectionistic strivings in athletes are associated with characteristics and processes that are likely to have positive effects on athletes' performance such as hope of success, competitive self-confidence, approach goal orientations, and self-serving attributions of success and failure (Stoeber & Becker, 2008;Stoeber, Stoll, Pescheck, & Otto, 2008), perfectionistic concerns in athletes are associated with characteristics and processes that are likely to have negative effects such as fear of failure, competitive anxiety, avoidance goal orientations, and self-depreciating attributions of success and failure (Sagar & Stoeber, 2009;Stoeber & Becker, 2008;. Moreover, perfectionistic concerns are associated with athlete burnout not only in adult athletes, but already in adolescent athletes (Gould, Udry, Tuffy, & Loehr, 1996;A.…”

School Engagement of High School Students

“…Her ne kadar başarısızlık korkusu ile ilgili çalışmalar spor alanında yoğunlaşsa da öğrenciler üzerindeki etkisinin de araştırıldığı çalışmalar mevcuttur. Örneğin; başarısızlık korkusunun; öğrencilerin kendini düzenleme (Bartels ve Magun-Jackson, 2009), başarısız olan arkadaşı hatırlama (Pang, Villacorta, Chin ve Morrison 2009), mükemmeliyetçilik (Sagar ve Stoeber, 2009;Conroy, Kaye ve Fifer 2007), erteleme (Haghbin, McCaffrey ve Pychyl, 2012) ve utanma (McGregor ve Elliot, 2005 özellikleri ile ilişkisini gösteren çalışmalar mevcuttur. Bunların yanı sıra sınırlı sayıda olsa da başarısızlık korkusunun öğrencinin okul bağlılığını etkileyebileceği ile ilgili çalışmalara rastlanmaktadır.…”