The Structure Of Orienteers’Flow State And Influence Factors

Flow is an optimal psychology state which widely exists in all kinds of activities. In sport, the flow state is an important subject in applied sports psychology which means one is so enjoyable as to want to do and then play his/her peak performance. More and more studies have show that flow has a close relationship with optimal performance and motivation and enjoyment of sports.Athletes Flow State consists of nine dimensions:challenge一skills balance, action—awareness merging、clear goals、unambiguous feedback、concentration on the task at hand、sense of control、loss of self-consciousness、transformation of time、atotelic experience. The empirical research shows that:only one demension doesn’t result the flow; different spors has different demensions. In view of this, this study attempts to directional orienteering as the breakthrough point, through the questionnaire survey (involves scale), interview method, mathematical statistics and other research methods, explores the Orienteers’Flow State and its influencing factors. The result shows that:(1) The Orienteers’Flow State was composed by seven interrelated factors, with the importance:Challenge-ability balance, Concentration on current tasks, Clear Goal, the mering of Action and Awareness, High sense of control, Enjoy the experience, Unambiguous Feedback.(2) There are three aspects influence orienteers’flow state:physical, psychological and environment.The physical element mainly includes pre—performance,performance on body and mind; Psychology mainly includes attention, confidence, self control, etc; Environment contains the weather and the game difficulty level. These three aspects interact with each other, influence each other, and some of the factors are controllable.