Abstract
Attitudes towards help-seeking will contribute to whether athletes ask for support for performance and mental health issues when needed. While research outside of sport has found perfectionism is related to negative attitudes towards help-seeking, no studies have examined the relationship in sport. We provided the first test of whether perfectionism predicted attitudes towards both sport psychology support and mental health support. One hundred and sixty-six collegiate athletes completed measures of perfectionism and attitudes towards sport psychology support and mental health support. Multiple regression analyses revealed that perfectionistic concerns positively predicted closedness and stigma to sport psychology support and mental health support, and negatively predicted help-seeking towards mental health support. However, perfectionistic strivings negatively predicted stigma to sport psychology support and mental health support, and positively predicted confidence in sport psychology support and help-seeking towards mental health support. Athletes higher in perfectionistic concerns are less likely to seek support when required.