This section shows your overall tendency to experience flow based on your responses, in comparison to other participants.
Absorption refers to deep immersion and reduced self‑awareness (first four statements).
Fluency refers to clear, smooth, and uninterrupted mental processing (last six statements).
White dots represent participant averages. Black dots are your scores.
Absorption (4 items):
“I feel just the right amount of challenge”
“I don’t notice time passing”
“I am totally absorbed in what I am doing”
“I am completely lost in thought”
This dimension reflects focused, undistracted attention and a reduction of self‑awareness; in deep absorption, actions and awareness “merge” with the task.
Fluency (6 items):
“My thoughts/activities run fluidly and smoothly”
“I have no difficulty concentrating”
“My mind is completely clear”
“The right thoughts/movements occur of their own accord”
“I know what I have to do each step of the way”
“I feel that I have everything under control”
This dimension reflects a heightened sense of automatic control over attention and actions; in extreme fluency, individuals describe their actions as if they happen on their own.
Timescale
Participants reported their flow experiences over the six months preceding the survey.
About Flow vs. Wellbeing
This section shows the relationship between the day-to-day wellbeing of creative practitioners and their tendency to experience flow states whilst engaging in their creative discipline.
Measures
Flow Short Scale (Rheinberg et al., 2003): ten items rated 1–7, aggregated into a global flow score.
WHO‑5 Wellbeing Index (Topp et al., 2015): five items rated 0–5, summed into a wellbeing score.
Timescale
Participants reported their flow experiences and general wellbeing over the six months preceding the survey.
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Results Portal
The Creative Flow and Wellbeing Study
Department of Psychology,
Goldsmiths, University of London,
Lewisham Way,
London, SE14 6NW
Contact: Oliver Durcan (odurc001@gold.ac.uk)
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The visualisations presented are exploratory and intended for research purposes only.
This tool is not designed to diagnose, label, or evaluate mental health, personality traits, or cognitive ability.
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The information provided is intended to support personal reflection, not to serve as clinical, medical, or psychological advice.
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This visualisation presents a comparative overview of your reported tendency to experience flow states during engagement in your creative discipline over the past six months, alongside aggregated data from other study participants.
White dots represent the average scores of other participants, based on the selected filter criteria.
Black dots represent your individual score for each item.
Percentage values indicate how much higher or lower your score is relative to the filtered participant averages.
You may further explore the meaning of your responses by comparing them to subsets of participants based on education level and income status in relation to their creative practice. To adjust these filters, click the search icon located in the bottom-left corner of the visualisation interface.
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Flow vs. Wellbeing
This visualisation reveals the relationship between participants general wellbeing and flow states whilst engaging in their creative discipline over the past six months.
Horizontal‑axis: WHO‑5 Wellbeing Index (0 = at no time, 5 = all of the time).
Vertical‑axis: Global flow score (average of flow dispositions on a 1–7 scale).
Orange dots: Correlated data points from filtered set of participants.
Use the filter icon in the bottom-left corner to explore how flow disposition correlates with each type of wellbeing. Use the search icon in the bottom-left corner to learn about the methodology behind this data.
