Dispositional Flow Scale-2 / Flow State Scale-2.

DFS-2 / FSS-2

What it measures

Flow (optimal experience) across Csikszentmihalyi's 9 dimensions - Challenge-Skill Balance, Action-Awareness Merging, Clear Goals, Unambiguous Feedback, Total Concentration, Sense of Control, Loss of Self-Consciousness, Transformation of Time, Autotelic Experience.

Length and format

36 (4 per dimension); 9-item short forms (S DFS-2 / S FSS-2, 1 per dimension). 5-pt Likert (1 never - 5 always) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Translated/validated in many languages incl. JA, ZH, ES, FR, IT, PT and others; used widely in sport and gaming

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Jackson, S. A., & Eklund, R. C. (2002). Assessing flow in physical activity: The Flow State Scale-2 and Dispositional Flow Scale-2. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 24(2), 133-150.