Flow Dimensions on Daily Activities with the Spanish Version of the Flow Scale (DFS)

Abstract

A sample of 250 students of psychology with an average age of 20.37 years, answered the Flow Q questionnaire indicating their favorite flow activity, and the Spanish version of the Dispositional Flow Scale (DFS). A confirmatory factor analysis assessed the DFS construct validity of the flow model on daily activities. Both a hierarchical model of eight first order factors reflecting a second order global flow factor, and a model with eight formative first order flow dimensions, showed good fit and discriminant power. Most optimal activities were found to be individual and structured, such as studying, reading and certain forms of individual sports. Leisure activities turned out to be more rewarding than studying. Sports displayed more flow, clear goals, merging of action and awareness, and autotelic experience. Reading also showed more flow, balance of challenge and skills, feedback, merging of action and awareness, and loss of self-consciousness. On the other hand, studying displayed less flow, merging of action and awareness, and autotelic experience.

Analysing flow experience on repurchase intention in e-retailing during COVID-19

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La comunicación entre padres e hijos: su influencia sobre el disfrute y el flow adolescente

“…La literatura muestra que el flow es más probable en actividades estructuradas que en las no estructuradas (Csikszentmihalyi & Csikszentmihalyi, 1988;Mesurado, 2009;Rufi et al, 2014). Por ello, en el presente estudio se han analizado por separado dos tipos de actividades según el adolescente consignara disfrutar más de actividades desestructuradas (sociales) o de actividades estructuradas (deporte o actividades artísticas).…”

“…En nuestro contexto, se ha encontrado que las actividades que más propician el flow en niños y adolescentes son las actividades estructuradas como el deporte, el estudio, los juegos con reglas o el aprendizaje de algún instrumento musical (Mesurado, 2009). Asimismo, diversos trabajos con diferentes poblaciones han mostrado que son las actividades estructuradas aquellas en las que se da esta experiencia en mayor medida (Delle Fave, Massimini, & Bassi, 2011;Rufi, Javaloy, Batista-Foguet, Solanas, & Páez, 2014).…”

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“…As part of the initial consultation, we looked at several questionnaires ( Nakamura and Csíkszentmihályi, 2009 ; Delle Fave et al, 2011 ; Engeser, 2012 ; Moneta, 2012 ; Csíkszentmihályi and Larson, 2014 ). The most frequently used and approved are the Dispositional Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2) and the Flow State Scale (FSS-2), a reliable and validated tool with a long tradition in many countries, for instance: France ( Fournier et al, 2007 ), Spain ( Rufi et al, 2014 ), Italy ( Riva et al, 2017 ), China ( Huang et al, 2019 ), Greece ( Stavrou and Zervas, 2004 ).…”

“…FSS-2 and DFS-2 have been translated and validated in various languages, especially often in the context of sports ( Doganis et al, 2000 , Fournier et al, 2007 ; Calvo et al, 2008 ; Kawabata et al, 2008 ; Gonzalez-Cutre et al, 2009 ; Gouveia et al, 2012 ; Crust and Swann, 2013 ; Riva et al, 2017 ; Nojavan et al, 2017 ), but also learning, recreation, well-being ( Whitmore and Borrie, 2005 ; Asakawa, 2010 , Rufi et al, 2014 , Souza Costa Correia et al, 2020 ), gameplay and internet games ( Wang et al, 2009 ; Procci et al, 2012 ; Hamari and Koivisto, 2014 ), mental diseases ( Huang et al, 2019 ).…”