An examination of the differences in flow among players of different games and sports

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to measure the difference in flow experiences among players participating in Individual Sports, Team Sports and E-Sports. For the purpose of the present study, 100 male subjects (individual sports=44, team sports=36 and e-sports=20) volunteered participate in the study were chosen. Their age ranged between eighteen to twenty five years. Subjects ready to participate in the present study were selected from different colleges affiliated to Punjabi University Patiala. To measure the flow experiences of selected subjects for the present study, the Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2) developed by Jackson & Eklund (2004) was administered. To find out the differences in mean of every selected group for chosen variable, One-way ANOVA was applied. For more analysis Scheffe’s Post-Hoc test was applied. To test the hypotheses, level of significance was at 0.05. Found results were insignificant on all sub-variable of Flow State except on sub-variable Loss of self-consciousness among selected groups of athletes.