Flow

Individual · — · Self-report Likert scale (e.g., WOLF — absorption / enjoyment / intrinsic motivation)

→ Read the Handbook entry for Flow — its measures, the owned Principia rendering, and the evidence.

Definition

A short-term peak experience at work characterised by absorption (total concentration, time distortion), work enjoyment (positive affect / intrinsic pleasure in the activity), and intrinsic work motivation. Csikszentmihalyi's flow construct operationalised for the work context by Bakker's Work-reLated Flow inventory (WOLF). Distinct from the more stable, trait-like Work Engagement (VAR_000153): flow is momentary/task-bound where engagement is a persistent affective-motivational state.

Also known as: Work-related flow · Flow at work · Optimal experience

Instruments measuring this construct

Operational metrics for this construct

No operational HR metric is linked to this construct yet. Metrics (e.g. an attrition rate, an engagement score) operationalize a construct from systems data — a different measurement model than a survey scale — and connect operational measurement to this construct’s relationship network. See /registry/metrics.

Top effect-size relations

No effect-size rows tied to this construct yet. EffectSize ingest is staged behind the curator-promotion CLI; this rail fills as rows land. Ranking: |value| × quality-grade weight.

Interventions targeting this construct

No interventions in the registry currently target this construct. The intervention library (PRN-047) fills as the curator promotes new rows from the applied organizational-development literature.

Citations

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