Beyond boredom and anxiety /
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Beyond boredom and anxiety / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. - Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. - xxx, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Originally published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1975, in series: Jossey-Bass behavioral science series.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
Enjoyment and Intrinsic Motivation -- Rewards of Autotelic Activities -- Structure of Autotelic Activities -- A Theoretical Model for Enjoyment -- Enjoying Games: Chess -- Deep Play and the Flow Experience in Rock Climbing -- Measuring the Flow Experience in Rock Dancing -- Enjoying Work: Surgery -- Flow Patterns in Everyday Life -- Effects of Flow Deprivation -- Politics of Enjoyment -- Tests and Procedures Used in Microflow -- Experiments.
"Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions 'serious' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment."--Publisher description.
0787951404 9780787951405
99056457
Pleasure
Play--Psychological aspects
Games--Psychological aspects
Work--Psychological aspects
BF515 / .C74 2000
152.42
Beyond boredom and anxiety / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. - Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. - xxx, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Originally published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1975, in series: Jossey-Bass behavioral science series.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
Enjoyment and Intrinsic Motivation -- Rewards of Autotelic Activities -- Structure of Autotelic Activities -- A Theoretical Model for Enjoyment -- Enjoying Games: Chess -- Deep Play and the Flow Experience in Rock Climbing -- Measuring the Flow Experience in Rock Dancing -- Enjoying Work: Surgery -- Flow Patterns in Everyday Life -- Effects of Flow Deprivation -- Politics of Enjoyment -- Tests and Procedures Used in Microflow -- Experiments.
"Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions 'serious' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment."--Publisher description.
0787951404 9780787951405
99056457
Pleasure
Play--Psychological aspects
Games--Psychological aspects
Work--Psychological aspects
BF515 / .C74 2000
152.42