Perfectionism and performance in a new basketball training task: Does striving for perfection enhance or undermine performance?

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Are perfectionistic strivings in sport adaptive? A systematic review of confirmatory, contradictory, and mixed evidence. (2012, background): “Only 2 of the 31 studies included in this review Chen, Kee, Chen, and Tsai (2008) and Stoll et al. (2008) tested for such effects, with both finding that perfectionistic concerns significantly moderated relationships involving perfectionistic strivings.”
Perfectionism and Performance (2012, unknown): “The findings from basketball training (Stoll et al., 2008) and triathlon competitions (Stoeber, Uphill, & Hotham, 2009) have important implications for research on perfectionism and sport performance because they indicate that, in “real life” settings and in the absence of false failure-feedback on…”
Relations between multidimensional perfectionism and burnout in junior-elite male athletes. (2009, background): “This is because evidence suggests that when individuals strive for perfection, and avoid engaging in negative, self-focused reactions to imperfection, they are able to maintain adaptive patterns of cognition, affect and behaviour which are conducive to sustained investment (Stoeber, Otto, Pesheck, B”
The dual nature of perfectionism in sports: relationships with emotion, motivation, and performance (2011, background): “The first study (Stoll et al., 2008) examined student athletes and investigated performance in training.”