Effects of Soundscape on Flow State during Diabolo Exercise

Tong-Yu Li, Si-Yuan Guo, Bin-Xia Xue, Qi Meng, Bo Jiang, Xin-Xin Xu and Chein-Chi Chang
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Tong-Yu Li: School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China
Si-Yuan Guo: School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China
Bin-Xia Xue: School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China
Qi Meng: School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China
Bo Jiang: School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China
Xin-Xin Xu: School of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163319, China
Chein-Chi Chang: School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150006, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 13, 1-14

Abstract: “Soundscape” is defined as “an acoustic environment as perceived or experienced and/or understood by a person or people, in context.” The research focuses on the physical properties of sound, paying attention to the relationship between the soundscape and people. Sports provide a comprehensive context, including the athletes, their behavior, the environment, spectators, and other elements. Soundscape in sports has many important functions, such as indicating the movement process, promoting positive emotions, and enhancing the entertainment atmosphere. It is also related to the physical and mental health of people who are exercising. As a technical sport with multidimensional soundscape qualities, diabolo is very popular among older adults in China due to its easy portability and operation. In order to explore the influence mechanism of the soundscape on the mental health of older players and better guide the shaping of soundscapes at sports venues, this paper focuses on soundscape perception and proposes a two-channel (direct and indirect) model of the influence of the diabolo soundscape on the psychological perception of older players. At the same time, we introduce the flow state as an indicator to evaluate mental health, and use the Short Flow State Scale (SFSS) to measure the flow state. By setting up a control experiment using the diabolo with and without sound and using the two-channel (direct and indirect) influence model to compare the differences in flow state scores under the two states, we analyzed the influence mechanism of the diabolo soundscape on the flow state of elderly groups. The results show that the scores of various flow state dimensions and total flow scores in the silent state of diabolo exercise are significantly lower than those in the sound state ( p < 0.05 and p < 0.001), and the main differences are in the three dimensions of unambiguous feedback, sense of control, and autotelic experience. The two-channel influence model can effectively explain the differences in older adults’ flow state, which provides a new comprehensive perspective to study the effect of the soundscape in sports on people’s mental health.

Keywords: diabolo; exercise psychology; flow state; soundscape; mental health; older adults (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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