Young Athletes Flow State Questionaire

Recent years, flow state has become concerns in the field of sport psychology. Currently in China and abroad, the widely recognized the state of flow measurement tool is only the "Athletes Flow State Scale"(FSS) which is prepared by Australian academics Jackson. However, this scale often used to assess the elite athletes, while does not apply to physical exercise, sports training in the measurement of flow state. The object of this study are young athletes, to prepare a flow state questionnaire which is in accordance with their physical and mental characteristics, to provide a more effective measurement tool for a better understanding of the characteristics of young people's flow state, in order to provide more reliable basis to enhance their motivition of physical participate.This study collect a large number of the relevant literature at home and abroad, based on a clear definition of "flow state", mainly refer to the "flow state scale" which is prepared by the Australian scholar Jackson to analyze its structure.At the same time, set an open-ended questionnaire investigation on basketball, badminton, Sanda, weightlifting and other sports 152 young athletes of the capital Institute of Physical Education Competitive Sports School to investigate their flow state. Set a semi-structured interviews on 26 young athletes of the Beijing Shichahai School, including volleyball, martial arts, gymnastics, taekwondo and other sports. In the survey results and interview recordings finishing, encoding, finally determined the structure of young athletes flow status questionnaire, including Challenge-Skill Balance,Action-Awareness Merging, Clear Goals, Unambiguous Feedback, Concentration on Task at Hand, Sense of Control, Loss of Self-Consciousness, Transformation of Time, and enjoy. Initially produced 60 items of the young athletes flow state questionnaire, use which to measure 24 sports 801 young athletes of six athletic schools which include Beijing Shichahai Sports School, Beijing Lu Cheng Sports Technical School, Beijing Xian Nong Tan Sports Technical School, Sprots School of Beijing Chaoyang District, Beijing Mu Xi Yuan Sports Technical School, Competitive sports school attach to Capital Institute of Physical Education. And test data for correlation analysis and exploratory factor analysis at the same time.Results of the analysis showed that the questionnaire correlations between the factors between 0.38-0.78, while the correlation between the factors and total score at 0.60-0.89, its internal consistency reliability and split-half reliability reached to an acceptable level. Meanwhile, in the young athletes flow state questionnaire, the factor loadings of reserved item is greater than 0.40, explanation rate of the total variance is 52.4%, Item meaning of each factor clear and interpretable, indicating that the questionnaire has good construct validity. Therefore, the young athletes flow state questionnaire in this study has a high consistency reliability, split-half reliability and construct validity. compared with the existing questionnaire, young athletes flow state questionnaire is more emphasis on training or competition situations, and the description of the item is more suitable r for young people's linguistic character, it can serve as an effective tool in measurement of young athletes'flow state.