The Structural Model of Self-Esteem of Athletes Based on Psychological Hardiness and Perfectionism with Mediator Affective Control

The purpose of this study was to structural model of self-esteem of athletes based on psychological hardiness and perfectionism with mediator affective control. This research is a correlation study in which the relationships between research variables are studied using equation structural modeling. The statistical population included all athletes Tehran city in year 2019. The participants consisted of 320 athletes were selected through convenience sampling technique. The research instruments included Rosenberg self-Esteem scale (1989), psychological hardiness scale of Ahwaz of Kiamersi, Najarian and Mehrabizadeh Honarmand (1998), multidimensional perfectionism scale (MPS) of Hewitt & Flett (1991) and affective control scale (ACS) of Williams, Chambless & Ahrens (1997) which the participants completed. Fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling using lisrel software package. The indirect relationships were tested by using bootstrapping procedure in Preacher and Hayes Macro command. The proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the data. Overall, the results showed all the direct paths of were found significant. Also results showed, also this model showed indirect path psychological hardiness and perfectionism with self-esteem through mediator role affective control. The evaluated model has a good fit and is an important step in identifying the factors that are effective in affective control of athletes.