Egen och social påverkan på perfektionsim hos individuella idrottare
The main purpose of this study was to examine own and social influence on perfectionismwith individual athletes. The participants (n= 96) of this study represented ten different sportsand their ages was between 15 and 44. An interview with four of the participant wasconducted. The instruments used for this study was the Positive and Negative PerfectionismScale (Terry-Short et al., 1995) and for the interviews questions was based on own and socialinfluence. The results showed that there was a relationship between positive perfectionismand own influence, negative perfectionism and own influence, negative perfectionism andsocial influence. The results did not show any gender difference regarding perfectionism andown/social influence. The interview gave a deeper knowledge on positive perfectionismtogether with own and social influence and negative perfectionism together with own andsocial influence.Keywords: Individual athletes, Own influence, Perfectionism, Social influence