Publication details
Souvislosti výkonové motivace a prožitku flow u klientů Spinning programu
| Title in English | Connections between Performance Motivation and Flow Experience by Spinning Programme Clients |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | This quantitative study describes possible connections between the quality of optimal experience and the level of performance motivation and actual emotional state of the client before, during and after the lesson of Spinning. The study also examines the alarming conclusions of the qualitative pilot-study on a similar topic by Riegel (2012). Research was conducted on the population of 101 skilled Spinning clients in different fitness centres in the Czech Rep. and Slovakia. Each of these clients was a regular visitor of Spinning lessons in the count of min. 2 trainings a week during the period of min. 3 months. Methods, administred in the pen-and-paper form, included: Flow State Scale (Jackson & Marsh, 1996), D-M-V (Pardel & Maršálová, 1984), Happiness Measure (Fordyce, 1988), Questionnaire on Supervisor-Doctoral Student Interaction (Mainhard, 2009), and Grandjean Questionnaire. Statistical analysis of data included, among other things, gender and age comparisons, as well as differences between nationalities and individual fitness centres. According to the results, the flow experienced by Czech and Slovak clients during Spinning classes, correlates with level of performance motivation, both supporting anxiety and limiting anxiety. Slightly above-average performance motivation seems to be the significant aspect of personality of Czech and Slovak Spinning clients. Thus, it could be understood as a predictor of the higher level of optimal experience or as its inhibitor as well, depends on the circumstances. |