Investigating the relationship between group and individual competition anxiety and its relationship with perfectionism

Introduction: The study investigated the relationship between perfectionism and competitive anxiety of group and individual athletes. Martials and Methods: Four hundred individual athletes who according to the coaches were able to participate in competitions were selected by stratified random sampling (50% group and 50% individual). Questionnaire of demographic characteristics, perfectionism scale in athletes, Dan et al. (2005) and also the Martens competitive anxiety scale questionnaire completed by Wiley et al. Results: The correlation results showed that in group athletes, there was a positive and significant correlation between excessive worry about mistakes with competitive anxiety (r = 0.19), a positive and significant correlation between perceived coach pressure and competitive anxiety (r= 0.24). r) And a positive and significant correlation between perfectionism and competitive anxiety (r= 0.26). But there was no significant correlation between personal standards and perceived parental pressure with competitive anxiety. Also, the correlation results showed that in individual athletes, there was a positive correlation between personal standards and competitive anxiety (r= 0.22), excessive concern about mistakes with competitive anxiety positive, significant correlation (r= 0.17), positive and significant correlation between perceived coach pressure with competitive anxiety (r= 0.205) and positive and significant correlation between perfectionism with competitive anxiety (r= 0.21). But there was no significant correlation between perceived parental pressure and competitive anxiety. Conclusion: Results of multivariate regression showed that in group athletes, coach variables of perceived pressure and excessive worry about mistakes are the strongest variables for predicting competitive anxiety in group athletes, respectively. Also, the results of multivariate regression showed that in individual athletes, the variables of personal standards, perceived coach pressure and excessive worry about mistakes are the strongest variables to predict competitive anxiety in individual athletes (P 0.05).