TY - JOUR
T1 - Alegría! Flow in Leisure and Life Satisfaction
T2 - The Mediating Role of Event Satisfaction Using Data from an Acrobatics Show
AU - Chen, Lung Hung
AU - Ye, Yun Ci
AU - Chen, Mei Yen
AU - Tung, I. Wu
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study was partially supported by a grant form the National Science Council (NSC98-2410-H179-005) to Mei-Yen Chen. We are also grateful for the anonymous reviewer’s insightful comments for our manuscript.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The aim of the current study was to examine the role of satisfaction-with-event as a mediator in the relations between flow and life satisfaction based on the bottom-up theory (Andrews and Withey in Social indicators of well-being: Americans' perceptions of life quality. Plenum, New York, 1976; Lee et al. in J Macromarketing 22(2): 158-169, 2002). Four hundred and thirty-four participants with a mean age of 35.60 (SD = 11.76) were recruited from the audience of a "Cirque du Soleil" acrobatics show, performed in Taiwan in 2009. Participants completed the flow scale (Csikszentmihalyi in Flow: the psychology of optimal experience. Harper & Row, New York, 1990), a satisfaction-with-event scale (Lin and Hsu in Mark Rev 3(4): 497-528, 2008), and a satisfaction-with-life scale (Diener et al. in J Pers Assess 49:71-75, 1985) immediately after viewing the show. Structural equation modeling was conducted to examine our hypothesis that satisfaction-with-event levels would fully mediate the relationship between flow and overall life satisfaction. Results supported our prediction and are discussed in terms of bottom-up theory. Implications of the study are also provided for the leisure managers.
AB - The aim of the current study was to examine the role of satisfaction-with-event as a mediator in the relations between flow and life satisfaction based on the bottom-up theory (Andrews and Withey in Social indicators of well-being: Americans' perceptions of life quality. Plenum, New York, 1976; Lee et al. in J Macromarketing 22(2): 158-169, 2002). Four hundred and thirty-four participants with a mean age of 35.60 (SD = 11.76) were recruited from the audience of a "Cirque du Soleil" acrobatics show, performed in Taiwan in 2009. Participants completed the flow scale (Csikszentmihalyi in Flow: the psychology of optimal experience. Harper & Row, New York, 1990), a satisfaction-with-event scale (Lin and Hsu in Mark Rev 3(4): 497-528, 2008), and a satisfaction-with-life scale (Diener et al. in J Pers Assess 49:71-75, 1985) immediately after viewing the show. Structural equation modeling was conducted to examine our hypothesis that satisfaction-with-event levels would fully mediate the relationship between flow and overall life satisfaction. Results supported our prediction and are discussed in terms of bottom-up theory. Implications of the study are also provided for the leisure managers.
KW - Eudemonism
KW - Positive psychology
KW - Well-being
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U2 - 10.1007/s11205-010-9581-z
DO - 10.1007/s11205-010-9581-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957660319
SN - 0303-8300
VL - 99
SP - 301
EP - 313
JO - Social Indicators Research
JF - Social Indicators Research
IS - 2
ER -