Mari Khatchapuridze

Academic Writing: English adaptation of the Flow Synchronization

Questionnaire1

                                      Minor paper in Personality Psychology

2. Methods

2.1. Participants

  426 participants took part in the online survey study from 18 years people, majority female

participants were 255 in comparison to 165 males and 6 others. Majority of people were from

cities 195 (45,8%), residents from the capital city were 164 (38.5%)  and from town/village -

67 (15.7%). Relationship status of participants were not significantly different, 224 was in a

relationship and 202 single. And most people had vocational education

(vocational/community college): primary 19, secondary 60,  BSc 194, MSc 88 and post-

gradual 65. 

  The experiment has been evaluated and approved by the Eotvos Lorand University

Budapest, Hungary. Participants were recruited through advertisement and were provided

with the full description of the experiment, the study was executed on an online survey

website and filling in the questionnaire took about 5 minutes. They were also informed that

participation was voluntary and anonymous, and they had knowledge about the possibility of

the use of their data for research purposes. Participants identify their most typical activity in

which they have a common flow experience, then evaluate different statements regarding

flow synchronization and flow experience. 

2.2 Materials 

After the demographic questions participants filled the following questionnaires: 

2.2.1. General flow Description in Social interactions (Magyaródi & Oláh, 2015a)
Flow Synchronization Questionnaire (FSyQ) includes 5 subscales’ scores: effective

cooperation and partnership, engagement and concentration on the task, motivation and 

positive effect on the partner, motivation and learning for the person and coordination during

the task.

2.2.2. Flow State Scale (Jackson & Marsh, 1996)

Flow State Scale (FSS) is a measure of flow in sport and physical activity settings, which

includes nine scales of 36-item instruments and each scale is measured by four items

(Jackson & Marsh, 1996). In this study, in total we used 9 subscales scores: challenge-skill,

action-awareness, clear goals, unambiguous feedback, concentration, sense of control, loss of

self-consciousness, transformation of time and autoletic experience. 

2.2.3. English translation of the Flow Synchronization Questionnaire (Magyaródi & Oláh,

2015a)

 5 subscales (list them), tell how the items are evaluated by the participants, 1 total

score

2.3. Procedure

  The survey study has been evaluated and approved by the Eotvos Lorand University

Budapest, Hungary (number of the ethical permission: ). Participants were recruited through

advertisement and were provided with the full description of the experiment, the study was

executed on an online survey website and filling in the questionnaire took about 5 minutes.

They were also informed that participation was voluntary and anonymous, and they had

knowledge about the possibility of the use of their data for research purposes. Participants

identify their most typical activity in which they have a common flow experience, then

evaluate different statements regarding flow synchronization and flow experience. 

As mentioned above participants were recruited from advertisement through social media and

study was executed on an online survey website and took about 5 minutes. 
2.4. Statistical analysis:

IBM SPSS statistics Data editor has been used for data analysis. For questionnaire,

descriptive analysis and reliability tests have been conducted. 

3.1. Results

From 426 participants, only 420 reported their gender (255 were females  and 165 males)

M=1.64, SD=0.562. Age, which ranged from 18 to 89 calculated as M=28.82, SD=12.076. 

Results of residency, relationship status, and educational level were measured

by averaging item results on which descriptive statistics would quantify the results. All,

residency (M=1.77, SD=0.701), relationship status (M=1.53, SD=0.500) and educational

level (M=3.28, SD=1.029).

In reliability statistics results were Cronbach’s Alpha 0.119, Cronbach’s  alpha based on

standardized items - 0.247. 

Conclusion and Self-reflection:

Even though research did not provide any significant results and I analysed only descriptive

statistics and reliability tests, it was a great chance for me to practice my skills in statistics.

Also this topic gave me new insights on learning aspects/scales in personality psychology.

Overall, conducting this research had a very positive impact on me and it will be a very good

base for my further research experiences in future.

References

Jackson, S. A., & Marsh, H. W. (1996). Development of a scale to measure the flow

state scale. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 18, 17–35.

https://doi.org/10.1080/15298860309027 
Magyaródi, T., & Oláh, A. (2015). A Cross-Sectional Survey Study About the Most Common

Solitary and Social Flow Activities to Extend the Concept of Optimal Experience. Europe’s

Journal of Psychology, 11(4), 632–650. doi:10.5964/ejop.v11i4.866