Introduction: Flow state is a psychological concept used to describe the optimal engagement in different activities. Therefore, the DFS-2 has been developed as an instrument to measure an individual’s dispositional tendency to flow state as a personality trait. Objective: Aiming to obtain an adapted version of the DFS-2 for the Brazilian-Portuguese language (DFS-BR) and for general activities, we performed its forward- and backward-translation, and we validated it. Methods: After gathering answers from 681 Brazilian participants, we performed: (1) the construct validity of the DFS-BR; and (2) the psychometric item quality analysis. Results: the Confirmatory Factorial Analysis (CFA) indicates the best fit for the gathered data is a nine multi-correlated factorial model (χ2/df = 4.23, CFI = 0.94, TLI = 0.93 and RMSEA = 0.069). Reliability tests performed in this structure indicates excellent internal consistency for the DFS-BR. The item quality analysis indicates that its difficulty and discriminating parameters have a good endorsement to estimate the dispositional flow state. Additionally, we proposed and validated a short version of the DFS-BR (composed of only nine items). The validation results indicates good fit (χ2/df = 2.94, CFI = 0.98, TLI = 0.97 and RMSEA = 0.053) and good internal consistency. The Test Information Curve of the short version indicates that it is very informative in the estimation of individual dispositional flow state. Discussion and Conclusions: In view of these results, we conclude that the DFS-BR showed good evidence of its validity to be used with Brazilian people. We also suggest the use of a short version when we need only measure the person’s flow state based on the principle of Occam’s razor. This principle is supported by the analysis presented in this article.

RESUMO: Objetivou-se avaliar a viabilidade econômica do confinamento de ovinos alimentados com dietas contendo diferentes fontes volumosas. Foram utilizados 21 ovinos machos Santa Inês, não castrados, distribuídos em três tratamentos: silagem de milho (SM); palma forrageira associada ao bagaço de cana-de-açúcar (BC); palma forrageira associada ao feno de Tifton 85 (FT) em delineamento inteiramente casualizado. Foi avaliada a viabilidade econômica e os parâmetros produtivos dos ovinos em cada dieta ofertada. Os ovinos do tratamento FT tiveram maior (P<0,05) ganho em peso, melhor conversão alimentar e menor custo de produção. Os ovinos alimentados com SM apresentaram o pior (P<0,05) desempenho e os maiores custos de produção. Os ovinos alimentados com BC não diferiram (P>0,05) quanto ao desempenho produtivo dos demais tratamentos. Os custos superaram a receita resultando em rentabilidade negativa para as dietas testadas. A terminação em confinamento, com dietas a base de silagem de milho, feno de Tifton 85 associada à palma ou bagaço de cana associada à palma, apresenta alto custo de produção e inviabiliza a atividade.Palavras-chave: custos de produção, feno de Tifton 85, palma forrageira, silagem de milho, confinamento. ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF THE USE OF DIFFERENT ROUGHAGE SOURCES IN SHEEP FEEDLOT DIETSABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to evaluate the economic viability of feedlotting sheep fed diets containing different roughage sources. Twenty-one uncastrated male Santa Ines sheep were assigned to three treatments in a completely randomized design: corn silage (CS); forage palm combined with sugarcane bagasse (SB), and forage palm combined with Tifton 85 hay (TH). Economic viability and productive parameters of the animals were evaluated in each treatment. Animals of treatment TH had higher weight gain, better feed conversion, and lower productions costs (P<0.05). The worst performance and highest productions costs were observed for sheep fed CS (P<0.05). Sheep fed SB did not differ (P>0.05) in productive performance from the other treatments. The costs exceeded the revenue, resulting in negative profit for the diets tested. The high production costs of feedlot finishing using diets based on corn silage or palm combined with Tifton 85 hay or sugarcane bagasse make this activity unfeasible.