M.A. Thesis:

The relationship between sport mindfulness and commitment to practice with perception of sport success

One of the most important challenges in sport psychology is the identification of factors affecting the success of the sport. Perception of sport's success is considered as one of the indicators of the effective psychology in increasing internal motivation and motor function. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships between sport mindfulness and perception of the sport success with respect to the mediating role of commitment to training. Methodology: This research is a descriptive and correlational study. Two hundred and five volunteers from different individual and team athletes participated in this study. Three questionnaires for athletic mindfulness (Sinot et al. 2014), commitment to training Derakhshanpoor et al. (under print) and the question of the sport perceived success (Roberts & Trashcher, 1998) were used in this study. Data analysis was performed using Streamline-Structural Modeling statistical method using Smart PLS2.0 and Spss23 software. Findings: There was a direct and meaningful relationship between athlete's mindfulness and commitment to training with perceived success. There is also a positive and significant relationship between the mindset of the perceived success through the mediating variable of commitment to training. Conclusion: In general, the findings of the research showed that special attention to sport mindfulness is important. Because the increase in sports mindfulness not only directly, but indirectly, by increasing the commitment to training, increases the perceived success of athletes. Also, among the two variables of sport awareness and commitment to training, the mental health consciousness variable is a stronger predictor for the perceived success of the athletes.

Keywords: Athletic Mindfulness, Training Commitment, Perceived Success Exercise