ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
A cognitive-affective pathway from socially prescribed perfectionism to athlete burnout: the roles of fear of failure and competitive state anxiety in Chinese athletes.
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Purpose: This study examined whether socially prescribed perfectionism was associated with athlete burnout through a cognitive-affective indirect-effect pattern in Chinese competitive athletes. Fear of failure was conceptualized as the cognitive threat-appraisal component, and competitive state anxiety as the affective competition-proximal component. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 896 Chinese competitive athletes recruited through provincial and municipal training systems across multiple sports. Participants completed standardized Chinese-language measures of socially prescribed perfectionism, fear of failure, competitive state anxiety, and athlete burnout. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were estimated using maximum likelihood, and indirect effects were tested with bias-corrected bootstrapping (5,000 resamples). Results: The hypothesized model showed good fit (χ Conclusion: Findings provide evidence consistent with, but not causal proof of, a cognitive-affective indirect-effect pattern linking socially prescribed perfectionism to athlete burnout. Competitive state anxiety appeared to be a more proximal correlate of burnout than fear of failure alone, suggesting that interventions in evaluative sport environments may benefit from addressing both failure-related threat appraisals and competition-related anxiety.
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