ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Flow and Satisfaction With Life in Elite Musicians and Top Athletes.
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- The Relationship Between Personality and Flow: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of personality · 2026Pooled it
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- Mindfulness and self-rated performance among novice athletes in China: a sequential mediating role of flow and cognitive anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The effect of music tempo on movement flow.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Exploring the well-being of professional female musicians: a self-determination theory perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Psychological capital and music performance anxiety: the mediating role of self-esteem and flow experience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Editorial: Highlights in performance science: music performance anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Predictors of flow state in performing musicians: an analysis with the logistic regression method.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Editorial: I got flow! The flow state in music and artistic sport contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- How audience and general music performance anxiety affect classical music students' flow experience: A close look at its dimensions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Achieving Flow: An Exploratory Investigation of Elite College Athletes and Musicians.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Feeling Safe With Hypnosis: Eliciting Positive Feelings During a Special State of Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Physical Activity and Anxiety of Chinese University Students: Mediation of Self-System.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Wellbeing and flow in sports and music students during the COVID-19 pandemic.Thinking skills and creativity · 2021Article
- Live Music Performance: The Relationship Between Flow and Music Performance Anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Although flow has been studied extensively in music and sport, there is a lack of research comparing these two domains. With the aim of filling this gap, elite musicians and top athletes in Slovenia were contrasted in the current study. Differences for flow and satisfaction with life between elite musicians and top athletes were explored. Individual versus group performance setting and gender differences were considered. 452 participants; 114 elite Slovenian musicians (mean age 23.46 years) and 338 top Slovenian athletes (mean age 22.40 years) answered questions about flow and satisfaction with life measures. The results show differences between elite musicians and top athletes in four flow dimensions: transformation of time and autotelic experience were higher in musicians while clear goals and unambiguous feedback were higher in athletes. However, differences in global flow were not confirmed. Elite musicians and top athletes experienced flow more often in group than in individual performance settings and surprisingly it was experienced more in male than in female top performers. Satisfaction with life has a positive correlation with all nine dimensions of flow, but only challenge-skill balance was a significant predictor for satisfaction with life.
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