（1.Department of Psychology，Capital Normal University，Beijing 100037，China；2.Psychological Consult Centre，Guangxi College for Preschool Education，Nanning 530022，China；3.Department of Graduate，Tianjin College of Sport，Tianjin 300381，China）

Abstract: Basing their subjects on 601 intelligence handicapped athletes trained for the Paralympic Games, the authors probed into relations between achievement target orientation, perfectionism and sports performance by means of corre-lation analysis and structural equation model, and revealed the following findings: 1)apprehending proximity target orientation and pursuing perfection have a direct positive prediction function on sports performance; 2)performance evasion target orientation, apprehending evasion target orientation and passive reaction of imperfection have a direct negative prediction function on sports performance; 3)performance proximity target orientation and apprehending proximity target orientation can indirectly predict sports performance via pursuing perfection, and have a significant positive prediction function on pursuing perfection; 4)performance proximity target orientation, performance evasion target orientation and apprehending evasion target orientation can indirectly predict sports performance via passive re-action to imperfection; 5)performance evasion and apprehending evasion have a positive prediction function on passive reaction, while performance proximity has a significant negative prediction function on passive reaction.Key words: sports psychology for handicapped people；achievement target orientation；perfectionism；intelligence handicapped