PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF A QUESTIONNAIRE TO STUDY THE CONTEXTUAL FLOW

RESUMO

Antonio Hern�¡ndez Mendo, Ver�³nica Morales S�¡nchez y Jos�© David Triguero Florido

This work is part of a wider investigation of knowledge dedicated
to sports practices generically called active tourism. Estimations their relations
with the experience of sensations called optimal experience or flow experience.
This model, developed by Csikszentmihalyi, has been extensively studied in
the literature and has led to many studies, one of the most fertile areas of research
is the sport, especially when it comes to high performance and motivation.
This paper presents the scale developed to assess the state flow produced by
the environment and called contextual flow. The study was conducted with two
samples of 100 and 586 individuals ( total). The average age of respondents is
at 24.79 years, range in age from 16 to 61 years. The gender distribution, 58.4%
men and 41.6% women. The results obtained in both the AFE and AFC are
optimal.