“…Researchers have found, for instance, that obsessively passionate athletes' rigid persistence can lead to risky training, thereby increasing their vulnerability to injury (Stephan et al 2009;, and the rigid persistence of individuals who have high obsessive passion for the Internet and for soccer (Vallerand et al 2008) is associated with poor relationship quality. Overall, obsessive passion is linked to a variety of negative outcomes at the individual level, including conflict with other life spheres (Vallerand et al 2010), aggressive behavior (Donahue et al 2009), and difficulties in partner relationships (Vallerand et al 2008). For numerous other activities-such as sports, gaming, and shopping-obsessive passion often leads to unproductive outcomes, thus creating conditions that would make it difficult to continue engagement or to be successful in the long term.…”