Relationship Between the Psychological Attitude Toward Fantasy and Flow Experience and Mental Health
1 Abstract: This study examined the relationship between the psychological attitude toward fantasy and fl ow experience and subjective well being. College students vocational school students and university staff (N =299 completed (1 the multiphasic fantasy inventory (2 the fl ow experience checklist and (3 the subjective well being inventory. First a series of tests revealed that the participants scoring high on fl ow experience scored high on wish fulfi llment in fantasy coping with the futureandpositive eff ectand scored low onfantasy activity is useless. The participants scoring high on mental health scored high oncoping with the futureand scored low onfantasy prone indulging in fantasy in unpleasant conditionsandnegative eff ect. Second a model explaining the relationship between the psychological attitude toward fantasy and flow experience and subjective well being was constructed. A covariance structure analysis was used and the goodness of fi t index was not found to be signifi cant.