Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for self-reported flow experience and physiological variables for the three experimental conditions.
| MEASURE | CONDITIONS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | Medium | Difficult | ||||
| Shy | Non-shy | Shy | Non-shy | Shy | Non-shy | |
| Flow experience | 48.57 (6.96) | 49.59 (7.32) | 52.38 (7.99) | 56.78 (8.41) | 50.05 (9.68) | 52.38 (9.46) |
| Physiological signals | ||||||
| HR | 75.91 (9.68) | 75.40 (9.87) | 78.78 (10.53) | 77.53 (10.55) | 79.29 (9.42) | 77.84 (9.79) |
| HRV | 0.08 (0.05) | 0.08 (0.04) | 0.06 (0.05) | 0.06 (0.05) | 0.05 (0.02) | 0.05 (0.03) |
| RR | 19.84 (4.37) | 19.74 (4.26) | 21.22 (5.38) | 21.40 (5.48) | 22.29 (5.06) | 22.39 (5.24) |
| RD | 0.27 (0.17) | 0.29 (0.19) | 0.34 (0.18) | 0.34 (0.17) | 0.26 (0.13) | 0.27 (0.15) |
| SC | 5.56 (3.65) | 5.79 (3.98) | 8.32 (5.42) | 8.65 (5.52) | 9.38 (6.12) | 9.24 (6.22) |
Values are means with standard deviations for the shy (n = 20) and non-shy (n = 20) participants. n, group size; HR, heart rate; HRV, heart rate variability; RR, thoracic respiratory rate; RD, thoracic respiratory depth; SC, skin conductance.