Book chapter
Flow in sport
Flow experience : empirical research and applications, pp.51-64
Springer
2016
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Abstract
Sport offers rich opportunities to experience flow by posing both mental and physical challenges. Studies specifically investigating flow in sport were first published in 1992. Since then a body of empirical research has emerged in this area, which this chapter aims to review in terms of: (i) the methods commonly used to study flow in sport (i.e. interviews, questionnaires, and the Experience Sampling Method); and (ii) key research themes (i.e. the experience, occurrence, controllability and correlates of flow in sport). In turn, current issues within this field are examined, and recommendations are made for future research, including the need to build towards a causal explanation of flow, and potential refinement in understanding how athletes experience these optimal states.
Details
- Title
- Flow in sport
- Creators
- Christian Swann
- Contributors
- László Harmat (Editor of compilation)Frans Ørsted Andersen (Editor of compilation)Fredrik Ullén (Editor of compilation)Jon Wright (Editor of compilation)Gaynor Sadlo (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Flow experience : empirical research and applications, pp.51-64
- Publisher
- Springer; Switzerland
- Identifiers
- 3656; 991012821692302368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Human Sciences; School of Health and Human Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter