Brief approaches to assessing task absorption and enhanced subjective experience: Examining 'short' and 'core' flow in diverse performance domains
Brief approaches to assessing task absorption and enhanced subjective experience: Examining 'short' and 'core' flow in diverse performance domains
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DOI：
10.1007/s11031-008-9094-0
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
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4.8
通讯作者：
Jackson, Susan A.
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作者：
Martin, Andrew J.;Jackson, Susan A.
本研究的总体目标是通过评估两种简短的心流测量来扩展当前评估任务吸收和主观体验的方法：(1)“短”心流，反映了从“长”多项目多因素心流工具中得出的总体或全局测量；(2)“核心”心流反映了主观心流体验本身的现象学。我们认为短流和核心流具有互补但不重叠的优点、目的和应用。研究1考察了工作（N = 637）、运动（N = 239）和音乐（N = 224）中的“短”心流。研究2考察了普通学校（N = 2229）、课外活动（N = 2229）、数学（N = 378）和体育（N = 220）情境下的“核心”心流。除了少数例外，这两种流量测量都证明了：(a)可接受的模型拟合、可靠性和分布，(b)以假设的方式与动机相关，以及(c)不同样本中因素负荷的不变性。在公共数据可用的地方，短流和核心流都是正相关的，但由于大约一半的方差无法解释，它们显然不是相同的结构，因此我们提供了关于在特定情况下使用哪种测量方法的指导。我们的结论是，简短的心流测量适用于研究任务吸收、主观经验和同源构念（如动机）。
The overarching aim of the present study is to expand current approaches to assessing task absorption and subjective experience by assessing two brief measures of flow: (1) 'short' flow, reflecting an aggregate or global measure drawn from the 'long' multi-item multi-factor flow instrument and (2) 'core' flow reflecting the phenomenology of the subjective flow experience itself. We propose that short and core flow have complementary but non-overlapping merits, purposes, and applications. Study 1 examines 'short' flow in work (N = 637), sport (N = 239), and music (N = 224). Study 2 examines 'core' flow in general school (N = 2,229), extracurricular activity (N = 2,229), mathematics (N = 378), and sport (N = 220) contexts. With few exceptions, both flow measures demonstrated: (a) acceptable model fit, reliability, and distributions, (b) associations with motivation in hypothesized ways, and (c) invariance in factor loadings across diverse samples. Where common data are available, both short and core flow are positively correlated, but with approximately half the variance unexplained they are clearly not the same construct, and so we offer guidance regarding which measure/s to use under particular circumstances. We conclude that the brief flow measures are appropriate for research examining task absorption, subjective experience, and cognate constructs such as motivation.