Sports Perfectionism of the School-going Adolescents

Perfectionism is a psychological construct. Sports Perfectionism is actually a person’s hunt of being flawless and perfection in games and sports. The present study was carried out through descriptive survey method. To collect data “Sport Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS)” was administered on a random sample of 706 school-going adolescents, chosen from Government, Government Sponsored and Government aided secondary and higher secondary schools of West Bengal. It was observed that the adolescents on an average scored high in all of the four subscales of Sports MPS. From the result it might be concluded that the school-going adolescents have experienced high perfectionism in games and sports and they also might have higher motivation to be the outstanding in games and sports.