Optimal experience : psychological studies of flow in consciousness /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Description:xiv, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/893341
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Other authors / contributors:Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly.
Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega.
ISBN:0521342880
Notes:Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 384-401.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. A Theoretical Model of Optimal Experience
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The flow experience and its significance for human psychology
  • 3. Sociological implications of the flow experience
  • 4. Flow and biocultural evolution fausto massimini
  • Part II. Varieties of the Flow Experience
  • 5. Introduction to Part II
  • 6. Bozozoku: flow in Japanese motorcycle gang
  • 7. Women, work, and flow
  • 8. The relationship between life satisfaction and flow in elderly Korean immigrants
  • 9. Flow and writing
  • 10. Flow and solitary ordeals
  • Part III. Flow as a Way of Life
  • 11. Introduction to Part III
  • 12. Modernisation and the changing context of flow in work and leisure Antonella
  • 13. Ocean cruising
  • 14. Flow in a historical context: the case of the Jesuits
  • Part IV. The Measurement of Flow in Everyday Life
  • 15. Introduction to Part IV
  • 16. The systematic assessment of flow in daily experience
  • 17. The quality of experience in the flow channels: comparison of Italian and US students
  • 18. Flow and the quality of experience during work and leisure
  • 19. Optimal experience and the uses of talent
  • 20. Self-esteem and optimal experience
  • 21. Optimal experience and the family context2Kevin Rathunde
  • 22. The future of flow