![]() In short, they have maximized what they had, so the importance of mental preparation has increased dramatically because that is where there are still untapped advantages to be gained” ( Molcsapat, 2022). As three-time Olympic champion Hungarian fencer Áron Szilágyi noted shortly after winning his third Olympic title, “sport is a universal phenomenon, and I do not think there is a sport in the world where revolutionary innovations are yet to be discovered in terms of preparation, tactics or even technique. For example, nineteen-time US gymnastics world champion Simone Biles withdrew from the finals of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in order to focus on her wellbeing ( Ingle, 2021). More and more sport professionals recognize the importance of mental preparation in optimizing performance and maintaining mental health. Sport is a highly competitive field in which athletes are required to meet high expectations and be both physically and mentally fit to reach peak performance. These findings suggest that both irrational beliefs and perfectionism influence the emergence of competitive anxiety, therefore rational emotive behavioral therapy with a focus upon perfectionism may be an effective means of reducing competitive anxiety in athletes. Depreciation beliefs had a direct effect, and demandingness and awfulizing had indirect effects, on somatic competitive anxiety when both forms of perfectionism were entered as mediators. ![]() The total score and all four subscale scores on irrational beliefs had both direct and indirect effects on cognitive competitive anxiety, the latter effects mediated by both forms of perfectionism. A serial atemporal multiple mediation analysis revealed that both adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism were significant partial mediators between irrational beliefs and competitive anxiety. While previous studies indicate that higher irrational beliefs predict greater competitive anxiety, in the present study it is hypothesized that this relationship is mediated by perfectionism. In this study the influence of irrational beliefs and perfectionism on the emergence of competitive anxiety was investigated.
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