The purpose of the this study was to find out the influence of flow experience on self efficacy and satisfaction with dance activity of university students majoring in dance. 330 female students were selected from 8 department of dance in university a...
The purpose of the this study was to find out the influence of flow experience on self efficacy and satisfaction with dance activity of university students majoring in dance. 330 female students were selected from 8 department of dance in university as subjects using purposive sampling method. Data were collected through the self-administrated 45 questionnaires which were measured by the index from Oh, Park & Kim(2007)`s flow experience questionnaires, Ko & Kang(2009) and Kim(1999)`s self efficacy ones, and Kim & Jeong(2007)`s dance activity satisfaction questionnaires. One-way ANOVA, multiple regression analysis, correlation analysis, structural equation model analysis methods were used to solve problems of the study. On the basis of the results analyzed, the conclusions were drawn as follows. First, students majoring in Korean dance were the higher loss of time concept than majoring in ballet. There is no significant difference between kinds of dance participation and satisfaction with dance activity. The more frequency of dance participation, the higher flow experience and satisfaction with dance activity. Second, there is significant influence of flow experience on self efficacy of students majoring in dance. Third, the higher dance flow experience, the higher extent of satisfaction with dance activity. Forth, the primary factor affecting satisfaction with dance activity is dance flow experience, follow by self efficacy. Also, dance flow has indirectly significant influence on satisfaction with dance activity through self efficacy.