Relations Between Mental-physical Health And College Students' Flow Experience In Their Leisure Activities

Flow experience is one of research field in the positive psychology. It is important and positive emotion. It helps to improve the quality of human life and to promote self-development of college students. This research focuses on the relationship between mental-physical health and flow experience in the leisure activities. Data were collected by means of flow experience in leisure questionnaire and mental-physical health questionnaire from 436 freshmen and junior students from a university in Changchun. The major findings were as follows: (1)There was no significant difference in flow experience between different genders and majors; There was significant difference in flow experience between different grades,and junior student's scores were higher than freshmen's; (2) Compared with audio-visual and puzzle leisure activities, Sports leisure activities and hobbies of leisure activities were more likely to produce flow experience(3)There was significant positive associations between flow experience and mental-physical health;(4)Flow experience can be used as a judge the development of the students' mental-physical health index.