title: The dispositional flow scale-2 as a measure of autotelic personality: an examination of criterion-related validity.
abstract: The Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2; Jackson & Eklund, 2002) may be one of the most promising measures for assessing Csikszentmihalyi's (1990) construct of "autotelic personality." Despite strong internal validity, external validity of the DFS-2 remains open. We used 2 methods to provide evidence for external validity: (1) multiple-time assessments of experience sampling (1,856 entries generated over 7 days) to derive aggregate indices of criterion validity; and (2) single-time assessments of flow and personality for additional criterion-related validity. For single-time assessments of flow, we used a modified version of the Flow Questionnaire (Csikszentmihalyi & Larson, 1984). To assess personality, we included a measure of the Five-factor traits using the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992). A path model of NEO domains, DFS-2 global scores, and experience sampling aggregates fit the data well.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychological Sciences , Purdue University.
authors.forename: Jarrod A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Heidi N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Keiser
authors.forename: Evan M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Skarin
authors.forename: Scott R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult