Sustained flow and personal best in higher education: A mixed-methods approach

Revista de Psicodidáctica (English ed.) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.psicoe.2021.01.001

Safoura Jahedizadeh, Afsaneh Ghanizadeh

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The focus of the present study is on two newly-born concepts in educational psychology, i.e., personal best goals (PB) and sustained flow (SF). In other words, the present study delved into English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ PB and SF by finding the most crucial sustained flows, and exploring the dynamic interplay between PB and SF in two quantitative and qualitative phases. To do so, the Persian web-based versions of the Personal Best Questionnaire (Martin, 2006) and the DMC Disposition Scale (Muir, 2016) were utilized to explore the nexus between students’ PB and SF. This is accomplished by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in the quantitative phase and analyzing students’ responses on open-ended items of the DMC questionnaire as the qualitative phase of the study. The results demonstrated that students’ PBs predicted their SF. The most significant cases in the qualitative phase as well as pedagogical implications and suggestions are discussed.

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高等教育中的持续流动和个人最佳:混合方法方法

本研究的重点是教育心理学中两个新生的概念，即个人最佳目标（PB）和持续流动（SF）。换言之，本研究深入研究了英语作为外语（EFL）学生的PB和SF，找到了最关键的持续流动，并在定量和定性两个阶段探索了PB和SF之间的动态相互作用。为此，使用波斯网络版的个人最佳问卷（Martin，2006）和DMC处置量表（Muir，2016）来探索学生的PB和SF之间的关系。这是通过在定量阶段的结构方程建模（SEM）和在研究的定性阶段分析学生对DMC问卷开放式项目的回答来实现的。结果表明，学生的PBs预测了他们的SF。讨论了定性阶段最重要的案例以及教学意义和建议。

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