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The purpose of this study was to empirically examine the relationship among dance sports participants’ body-esteem, flow experience and psychological well‐being. A predictive, Non-experimental design was used to test the model in a sample of 492 dance sports participants in dance sports center or a cultural center in Seoul and Kyunggi province. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire which is Body-esteem Scale by Kim(2007) and Flow Experience as identified by Yook(2005) and Psychological Well-being as identified by Kim, Kim & Cha(2001). The statistical methods utilized in the study for analyzing the collected data were reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA and standard multiple regression analysis from the results of this study, the following conclusions were drawn: First, body-esteem, flow experience and psychological well‐being of dance sports participants differ statistically and significantly according to dance sports participation. Second, dance sports participants’ body-esteem scale had statistically positive effect on flow experience and psychological well- being. Third, dance sports participants’ flow experience had statistically positive effect on psychological well- being.