(1.Department of Psychology,Capital Normal University,Beijing 100037,China;2.Psychological Consult Centre,Guangxi College for Preschool Education,Nanning 530022,China;3.Department of Graduate,Tianjin College of Sport,Tianjin 300381,China) Abstract: Basing their subjects on 601 intelligence handicapped athletes trained for the Paralympic Games, the authors probed into relations between achievement target orientation, perfectionism and sports performance by means of corre-lation analysis and structural equation model, and revealed the following findings: 1)apprehending proximity target orientation and pursuing perfection have a direct positive prediction function on sports performance; 2)performance evasion target orientation, apprehending evasion target orientation and passive reaction of imperfection have a direct negative prediction function on sports performance; 3)performance proximity target orientation and apprehending proximity target orientation can indirectly predict sports performance via pursuing perfection, and have a significant positive prediction function on pursuing perfection; 4)performance proximity target orientation, performance evasion target orientation and apprehending evasion target orientation can indirectly predict sports performance via passive re-action to imperfection; 5)performance evasion and apprehending evasion have a positive prediction function on passive reaction, while performance proximity has a significant negative prediction function on passive reaction. Key words: sports psychology for handicapped people;achievement target orientation;perfectionism;intelligence handicapped |