Individual differences in undergraduate student athletes: The roles of perfectionism and trait anxiety on perception of procrastinationbehavior

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  • Pascal Chabaud

    Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

  • Claude Ferrand

    Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

  • Jean Maury

    Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Keywords:
student athletes, procrastination, perfectionism, anxiety
Abstract

The purpose in this study was to examine how undergraduate student athletes organized different explanations relating to behavioral procrastination into a hierarchy. Participants (N = 201) completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, & Jacobs, 1983) and the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Hewitt & Flett, 1991) personality questionnaires. Two groups (low and high trait-anxious and perfectionist) were created from the lower and upper third responses. These participants read 6 vignettes describing different explanations of athletes’ behavioral procrastination and 2 control vignettes (nonprocrastinator and reveler drinker), and rated them. The 2 groups both placed the nonprocrastinator vignette in the first position, but rated differently the behavioral self-handicap of reveller drinker and perfectionism with high standards vignettes. Maladaptive aspects of perfectionism associated with procrastination are discussed.

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2010-09-01
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