The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between the experience of flow on the job and personality traits among preschool teachers. The study was conducted on a sample of 96 teachers from six kindergartens in the area of Primorsko-goranska County, Croatia. Two questionnaires were applied in this study. The Flow Questionnaire was used to measure the flow and the Big Five I...

Objectives: This research aimed to shed light on the relationship between flow experience and perfor mance in sports using a marathon race as an example. We hypothesized that flow influences the marathon race performance by an indirect rewarding effect. We assumed that the positive quality of flow experience rewards the pre race running activity and thereby enhances training behavior which agai...

A qualitative investigation is proposed to examine flow experiences in professional ballet modern dancers in order understand the nature of this psychological experience. It is not well understood where and when professional dancers experience flow, and whether or not their subjective experience is correlated to what an audience evaluates in a dancer’s performance. The psychological state of fl...

Flow experience is quite frequent when performing a variety of on-line activities and is a good predictor for on-line users’ loyalty and revisiting. Most previous research emphasizes the effects of challenge/skill, focused attention, telepresence and web characteristics on flow experiences. However, text-based communication systems without features of telepresence and web characteristics still ...

Background: Flow experience is thought to enhance health-related quality of life by mitigating stress and providing a sense of achievement. The associations between flow experience and subclinical psychiatric anomalies, such as schizotypal personality traits and paranoid ideation, have not been examined. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the associations between flow experience and subcl...

Followed 78 adult workers for 1 week with the experience sampling method. (This method randomly samples self-reports throughout the day.) The main question was whether the quality of experience was more influenced by whether a person was at work or at leisure or more influenced by whether a person was in flow (i.e., in a condition of high challenges and skills). Results showed that all the vari...