大学生スポーツ競技者版自己志向的完全主義尺度の開発

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Perfectionism is a personality trait characterized by setting rigid high performance standards with no tolerance of mistakes and imperfections, often along with overly critical self-evaluations and excessive concerns regarding others' evaluations (Flett & Hewitt, 2002, Stoeber et al, 2010). Perfectionism in athletes has many positive and negative aspects to their psychological health and adaptation to sport environments. This study aims to develop Self-Oriented Perfectionism Scale for University Athletes (SOPSUA). The subjects were 273 university athletes (male = 141, female = 132 ; mean age = 19.77, SD = 1.22). They were asked to complete a questionnaire that included socio-demographic questions and 24 perfectionism questions. Stepwise exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and reliability analysis were conducted to develop the SOPSUA. The results of the stepwise exploratory factor analysis identified a four-factor model (“Perfectionism in Practices,”“Perfectionism in Competitions” “Perfectionism and Performance Anxiety” and “Perfectionism and Competitive Purposes”) with 16 items on the SOPSUA. Confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis confirmed that SOPSUA had acceptable fit indices of structural validities and Cronbach's alpha coefficient reliabilities. The results indicate that the SOPSUA can assess university athletes' perfectionism. Further research will be needed to examine the relationship between athletes' perfectionism and athletes' burnout.