A Validation Study on the Flow Experience Scale Measuring Personal Inclinations of South Korea's University Students
AUTHOR : 장인희,김리진
INFORMATION : page. 189~202 / 2016 Vol.23 No.3
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to validate the South Korean flow experience scale measuring personal
inclinations of university students that were developed by Ishimura in Japan. The participants were 269
university students in Seoul and Chonbuk, South Korea. The collected data was analyzed by exploratory
factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, and reliability analyses. The results are as follows. First, five
factors(satisfaction, trance, improvement, control ability, unity) and twenty-seven items were extracted after
conducting an exploratory factor analysis on thirty-two items of five factors of the scale model developed
by Ishimura. Second, the five factors model of exploratory factor analysis was more appropriate than the
Ishimura's five factors model of flow experience scale measuring personal inclinations after conducting
confirmatory factor analysis. Third, the result of flow tendencies in everyday life was that university
students experiened a normal level in general. For example, while South Korean university students had
high level of satisfaction and unity, they had few enjoyment of trance. The scale that developed in this
study is meaningful and appropriate to South Korean culture and the point of flow experience scale of
measuring personal inclinations. In the future, flow experience measuring personal inclinations of university
students will be used not only to understand the experience and psychological state of adolescence and
adulthood but also to develop new programs about flow.