Background: Perfectionistic cognitive bias is a psychological characteristic that is considered as a potential threat to people involved in intensive competitions, especially athletes. Because athletes are constantly faced with ever-increasing standards of evaluation, which can unconsciously give rise to unconscious editing. Abnormally high standards by athletes. These high standards are the basis of all kinds of mental injuries of athletes and make them prone to turning to performance enhancing substances. Therefore, interventions aimed at correcting perfectionistic cognitive biases can act as a protective factor against some dangers that threaten athletes.
Objective: To determine the effectiveness of correcting perfectionist cognitive bias, sports preference, attitude towards performance enhancing substances, and resilience of perfectionist sports students.
Methodology: The research method in this study is experimental and using a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research was Persian Gulf University athletes with symptoms of perfectionistic cognitive bias based on the criteria of the multidimensional perfectionism questionnaire. 40 student athletes with symptoms of perfectionist cognitive bias were selected in the fall of 1401 and placed into two experimental and control groups using the random assignment method.
Findings: The findings showed that the implementation of the intervention program to correct the perfectionistic cognitive bias of perfectionist sports students, while reducing the amount of perfectionistic cognitive bias (P<0.01) and the dimensions of the students' perfectionism (P<0.01), caused a decrease in self-oriented sports orientation (P <0.05) and change their attitude towards performance enhancing substances or doping (P<0.05). The findings also showed that the implementation of the intervention program to correct the perfectionist cognitive bias leads to an increase in the resilience of perf