The rewarding effect of flow experience on performance in a marathon race

Schüler, Julia; Brunner, Sibylle

The rewarding effect of flow experience on performance in a marathon race

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Datum

2009

Autor:innen

Schüler, Julia

Brunner, Sibylle

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

Sammlungen

Sportwissenschaft

Publikationstyp

Zeitschriftenartikel

Publikationsstatus

Published

Erschienen in

Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 2009, 10(1), pp. 168-174. ISSN 1469-0292. eISSN 1878-5476. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2008.07.001

Zusammenfassung

Objectives

This research aimed to shed light on the relationship between flow experience and performance in sports using a marathon race as an example. We hypothesized that flow influences the marathon race performance by an indirect rewarding effect.We assumed that the positive quality of flow experience rewards the pre-race running activity and thereby enhances training behavior which again leads to high race performance. A methodological issue of the this was to compare the retrospective with the experience-sampling measure of flow.

Design

Three studies with marathon runners (Ns ¼ 109, 112, 65 for Studies 1, 2, and 3, respectively) were conducted.

Method

They measured flow experience four times during a marathon race either retrospectively (Studies 1 and 2) or using an experience-sampling method during the race (Study 3). Additionally race performance and future running motivation (Studies 1, 2, and 3), pre-race training behavior (Studies 2 and 3) and flow experience in training (Study 3) were measured.

Results

The results confirmed the hypothesis showing that flow during a marathon race is related to future running motivation, but is not directly linked to race performance. Instead, race performance was predicted by pre-race training behavior (Studies 2 and 3) which again was fostered by flow during the training (Study 3). The descriptive flow courses of the retrospective and the experience-sampling flow measures were comparable but also showed important differences.

Conclusions

We critically discuss the practical implications of the rewarding effect of flow on performance and the advantages of the retrospective and experience-sampling measure of flow.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

796 Sport

Schlagwörter

Flow experience, Performance in sports, Marathon race

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SCHÜLER, Julia, Sibylle BRUNNER, 2009. The rewarding effect of flow experience on performance in a marathon race. In: Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 2009, 10(1), pp. 168-174. ISSN 1469-0292. eISSN 1878-5476. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2008.07.001

BibTex

@article{Schuler2009rewar-37184,
  year={2009},
  doi={10.1016/j.psychsport.2008.07.001},
  title={The rewarding effect of flow experience on performance in a marathon race},
  number={1},
  volume={10},
  issn={1469-0292},
  journal={Psychology of Sport and Exercise},
  pages={168--174},
  author={Schüler, Julia and Brunner, Sibylle}
}

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