ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the nature, costs, and consequences of perfectionism in athletes, dancers, and exercisers. The chapter about the nature of perfectionism in sports, dance, and exercise. The chapter focuses on concept in terms of psychological reactivity. The chapter focuses on the articles considerable costs and risks that accompany perfectionism when elite athletes and dancers become consumed by the need to be perfect and face pressures to be perfect that are self-imposed or externally imposed. Frustration discomfort is common among perfectionists who are striving tenaciously but who are not making sufficient progress; it is exacerbated among those perfectionistic athletes, dancers, and exercisers who have not embraced a process orientation and a growth mindset. The frequency of these thoughts can be regarded as a reflection of an internalized sense of pressure to be perfect and it will be very deleterious for those perfectionistic athletes and dancers who lack cognitive and emotional self-regulation skills.
