(1.Office,Wuhan Sports University,Wuhan 430079,China;2.Department of Physical Education,Wuhan Sports University,Wuhan 430079,China;3.Teaching & Research Office of Sports Psychology,Wuhan Sports University,Wuhan 430079,China) Abstract: From the perspective of the dark side of personality, the authors expatiated on the non adaptive effects of perfectionism on sports performance, motive, anxiety, self-respect and exercising, explained “perfectionism para-doxes” in sports scenarios, and thought that the cause for paradox formation is that inside perfectionism personality there are the mesomeric effects of non adaptive factors, particularity of sports scenarios, and other factors. The au-thor pointed out the future research directions of this topic in 9 aspects such as individual difference, cognition mechanism, area of application etc. Key words: sports psychology;dark side of personality;perfectionism;sports scenario;overview |