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Coaches who display perfectionistic tendencies, such as striving for flawlessness, may be particularly vulnerable\u2014even more so if they are overly critical of themselves and have a tendency to ruminate over their performance, or if they are attempting to convey an image of faultlessness, or both. A total of 272 coaches completed a battery of inventories assessing burnout, perfectionistic thoughts, and the tendency for perfectionistic self-presentation. All variables correlated significantly: coaches with higher scores on exhaustion scored higher both on perfectionistic thoughts and self-presentation. However, when three subscales of perfectionistic self-presentation were considered separately, lower and nonsignificant correlations emerged. We believe that this can be explained by the heterogeneous group of coaches participating in this study. Whereas all coaches may at times ruminate privately\u2014self-oriented perfectionism\u2014about their perceived failure to perform to expectations, not all may feel the pressure to present themselves to others as faultless\u2014a more socially prescribed perfectionism. 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