| This study is an initial investigation into how attachment self-schemas and goal orientation affect sport confidence and mindfulness. Participants were 79 women over the age of 18, who represented a diverse sample of equestrian disciplines. The central hypothesis is that attachment self-schemas influence a person's experience of sport confidence and mindfulness. There were six possible three-way relationships among variables that were tested. Attachment self-schemas were predicted to influence goal orientation, which in turn, influenced sport outcomes of sport confidence and mindfulness. The set of variables that demonstrated this relationship were anxious attachment schema, ego-goal orientation, and mindfulness, thus contributing to the understanding of how attachment self-schemas drive the underlying complexities of engaging and maintaining achievement strategies.;KEYWORDS: self-schemas, goal orientation, sport confidence, mindfulness, equestrians. |
