My name is Daniel Phipps and I am a third year psychology student from Nottingham Trent University. I am conducting a questionnaire study about the working persons’ daily commute to work and the types of activities people take part in on their commute, focussing on psychological flow. I am only looking at the journey to work you experienced today. I am looking at 3 types of transport in the commute; car, bus and train only. There will be questions on the conditions of the commute to work, the types of activities people take part in on their commute, feelings on how the commute went and whether people go into a psychological flow state on their commute.
All information given will be completely anonymous, therefore no contact details and names will be taken from yourself to protect your anonymity. You will need to provide a unique identifier incase you wish to withdraw your data at a later stage.
All information given will be strictly confidential.
You have the right to withdraw the information you have given at any point, without a given reason. If you do this your given information will be destroyed and not used in the study. If you wish to withdraw your data, I can be contacted by email on N0102558@ntu.ac.uk. In your email you must quote the unique identifier code, then I’ll be able to track down your data and delete it as requested.
Participants must be 18 years old or over, and are currently in paid employment.
By selecting “yes” you will confirming your consent to take part in the questionnaire, that you are 18 years old or over, and that you are currently in paid employment.
Please enter your unique identifier:
Section A. General Information about you and your commute.
The following set of questions are relating to your commute to work today and how you commuted to work.
1) Age:
2) Sex:
3) Employment status:
4) Country of residence:
5) Approximate amount of sleep from the night before in hours:
6) Major mode of transport today. Mode made up approximately 65% or more of your commute in relation to time.
Example: Commute lasted 50 minutes, walked for 10 minutes and car for 40 minutes. Car made up 80% of commute, therefore major mode of transport was car.
7) Role in commute:
8) If you were the driver today, did you use a satellite navigation device:
9) How long was your commute to work today approximately in minutes:
10) Approximate time of starting the commute, using 24 hour clock, e.g. 0800 hrs:
11) To what degree were there delays in your commute?
12) Out of all these delays, to what extent were they expected?
13) To what extent were you familiar with the route you took for work today?
Section B. Personal Interests and Your Commute.
The following questions ask about your personal interests and whether they occurred on your commute. There are four parts.
For the first part, list up to 8 of your favourite personal interests in any order. Examples of personal interests are activities you thoroughly enjoy, such as playing sports, playing games, reading and watching television.
For the second part, please state which of your listed personal interests occurred on your commute.
For the third part, please indicate which of these activities you enjoyed the most.
For the fourth part, please indicate why you enjoyed the chosen activity the most.
14) Please list up to 8 of your favourite personal interests in any order:
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15) Which of these occurred on your commute?
16) Which of these activities did you enjoy the most?
17) Please describe why you enjoyed this activity?
Section C. Your Experiences of Flow on Your Commute.
Psychological flow is a mental state in which the person is fully immersed in what they are doing, characterized by a feeling of focused energy and success in the process of the activity.
Please answer the following questions in relation to your experience in the commute you have taken to work today.
Rating Scale: Strongly disagree, disagree, neither agree or disagree, agree, strongly agree.
18) I was challenged, but I believe my skills would allow me to meet the challenge.
19) I made the correct movements without thinking about trying to do so.
20) I knew clearly what I wanted to do.
21) It was really clear to me that I was doing well.
22) My attention was focused entirely on what I was doing.
23) I felt in total control of what I was doing.
24) I was not concerned with what others may have been thinking of me.
25) Time seemed to alter (either slow down or speed up).
26) I really enjoyed the experience.
27) My abilities matched the high challenge of the situation.
28) Things just seemed to be happening automatically.
29) I had a strong sense of what I wanted to do.
30) I was aware of how well I was performing.
31) It was no effort to keep my mind on what was happening.
32) I felt like I was in total control of what I was doing.
33) I was not worried about my performance during the event.
34) The way time passed seemed to be different than normal.
35) I loved the feeling of performance and want to capture it again.
36) I felt I was competent enough to meet the high demands of the situation.
37) I performed automatically.
38) I knew what I wanted to achieve.
39) I had a good idea while I was performing about how well I was doing.
40) I had total concentration.
41) I had a feeling of total control.
42) I was not concerned with how I was presenting myself.
43) It felt like time stopped while I was performing.
44) The experience left me feeling great.
45) The challenge and my skills were at an equally high level.
46) I did things spontaneously and automatically without having to think.
47) My goals were clearly defined.
48) I could tell by the way I was performing how well I was doing.
49) I was completely focused on the task in hand.
50) I felt in control of my body.
51) I was not worried about what others may have been thinking of me.
52) At times, it almost seemed like things were happening in slow motion.
53) I found the experience extremely rewarding.
Section D. How were you feeling at the end of your commute.
This scale consists of a number of words that describe different feelings and emotions. Read each item and then select the appropriate answer to that word. Please indicate to what extent you felt like the describing word at the end of your commute.
Rating Scale: Very slightly or not at all, a little, moderately, quite a bit, extremely.
54) Interested.
55) Distressed
56) excited.
57) Upset.
58) Strong.
59) Guilty.
60) Scared.
61) Hostile.
62) Enthusiastic.
63) Proud.
64) Irritable.
65) Alert.
66) Ashamed.
67) Inspired.
68) Nervous.
69) Determined.
70) Attentive.
71) Jittery.
72) Active.
73) Afraid.
Thank you for completing the questionnaire. The purpose of the study was to look at the commuting experience to work and whether psychological flow may occur on the commute. Please feel free to ask me any questions regarding the study. If you have any other concerns, or wish to withdraw your data, I can be contacted by email on N0102558@ntu.ac.uk. If you wish to withdraw your data, in the email please include your unique identifier, then I’ll be able to locate your data and delete it as necessary.
If you have any comments regarding this study, then please do not hesitate to contact myself on the above email address. Or you can contact the supervisor of this research using the details below.
Glenn Williams, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU.
Tel: 0115 848 5980 Email: glenn.williams@ntu.ac.uk
If this research raises any personal issues or causes any distress, and you wish to talk to someone about this, then you may find the contact detail below useful:
The BBC have details for help lines on an array of issues: www.bbc.co.uk/onelife/helplines
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