THE FLOW EXPERIENCE IN LEISURE AMONG UNDERGRADUATS AND ITS INFLUENCING FACTORS

Leisure is a survival or life state of cultural creation, cultural appreciation and cultural construction, which is caused by people's leisure and in order to continuously meet people's various needs. It creates cultural atmosphere, transmits cultural information and constructs cultural artistic conception through the common behaviors, thoughts and feelings of human groups, so as to achieve the comprehensive and complete development of individual body, mind and will. The aim of this study is to explore the status of leisure and flow experience in leisure, and analyze the influencing factors of leisure flow experience among undergraduates. Seven hundred and eighty-seven undergraduates (377 males and 410 females) are selected by stratified random sampling from 7 universities in Guangdong Province. They are investigated with Leisure Flow Experience Questionnaire (LFEQ) and a self-compiled questionnaire on personal general information of leisure. The survey results indicate the following three points. First, 51.92% of college students have more than 4 hours of leisure time per day on average. College students' leisure activities are mainly static, entertainment and simple rest. Second, the total scores of LFEQ is (161.73±19.81). Third, there is significant difference in the percentage of college students who have experienced and have not experienced fluency experience in various leisure activities (χ2=80.613, P<. 001). Final, the results of multiple stepwise linear regression analysis show that the total score of LFEQ is positively related to the following 8 factors like family economic status, academic performance, only child or not, mother's occupation, leisure time length during weekdays, liking exploratory tourism at leisure, major category, and college category (β =0.091, 0.120, 0.109, 0.096, 0.086, 0.074, 0.073, 0.069, all P <0.05), while father's occupation, gender and like strolling at leisure are negatively related to the total score of LFEQ (β =-0.139, 0.134, -0.080, all P <0.05). College students have plenty of leisure time, and the leisure activities and leisure flow experience need to be improved. The characteristics of leisure activities, gender and family factors (such as family economic status and parents' occupations) may be the relevant factors of college students' leisure flow experience.