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Aesthetic salience and flow in young athletes: exploring the moderating role of personality, gender, and age

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posted on 2023-05-20, 07:27 authored by Coleman, MJ, Barber, BL, Ngaire DonaghueNgaire Donaghue

Objective

This study investigated the relation between flow and aesthetic salience during sport, specifically whether heightened aesthetic salience interfered with flow for adolescent athletes. This study further tested whether neuroticism strengthened the relation between aesthetic salience and flow for boys and girls and whether this relation was stronger for year 9 or year 11 high school students.

Method

Data were from wave two of the Youth Activity Participation Study (YAPS) of Western Australia. The sample included 1,812 students (814 boys, 988 girls). The YAPS survey was administered using laptop computers or in pen and paper format.

Results

Results indicated a significant four‐way interaction between aesthetic salience, gender, neuroticism, and year level for experiences of flow. Probing of the four‐way interaction indicated that aesthetic salience was positively predictive of flow at lower levels of neuroticism, but negatively predictive of flow at higher levels of neuroticism, for year 11 girls. For boys, there was a conditional main effect such that more experiences of aesthetic salience predicted more flow in sport.

Conclusions

These findings illustrate that experiences of aesthetic salience in sport are complex and vary according to individual attributes.

History

Publication title

Australian Journal of Psychology

Volume

70

Issue

4

Pagination

369-377

ISSN

0004-9530

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Australian Psychological Soc

Place of publication

1 Grattan Street, Carlton, Australia, Victoria, 3053

Rights statement

Copyright 2018 The Australian Psychological Society

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Organised sports; Expanding knowledge in psychology

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