The objective of this study was to determine the main differences in perfectionism and coping with stress with professional and amateur dancers. The sample consists of 179 participants, of whom 52 are professional dancers, 61 are amateur dancers of various dance styles and the remaining 66 participants are non-dancers. The participants completed a questionnaire about dance, APS-R perfectionism questionnaire, COPE questionnaire about coping with stress, and IPIP-50 personality traits questionnaire. Data have been collected online, via email and Facebook. The results of the research show that non-dancers achieved lower scores at the subscale "High Standards" of perfectionism questionnaire than amateur and professional dancers, while there is no difference between the amateurs and professionals. Furthermore, the results show there is a difference in the subscales "Denial" and "Diversion" of COPE questionnaire. On the subscale "Denial", professional dancers achieved lower scores than amateur dancers, while among the non-dancers and both groups of dancers there is no difference on that subscale. Subscale "Diversion" indicates that non-dancers achieved higher scores than professionals, as well as amateur dancers achieved higher scores than professionals. Personality questionnaire shows a difference only in the subscale "Intellect", in the way that non-dancers achieved lower results than amateur and professional dancers did, while there is no difference between the professionals and amateurs. In addition, covariance analysis, with age and education as controlled variables, shows different results than the analysis of variance in the subscales "Denial" and "Diversion" of COPE questionnaire. On the other side, there were no differences found on the other subscales of the questionnaire. These results are partly in line with expectations.