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Beyond boredom and anxiety / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ; with contributions by Isabella Csikszentmihalyi [and others].

By:

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Jossey-Bass behavioral science seriesPublisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1975Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0875892612
9780875892610

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Beyond boredom and anxiety.; No titleDDC classification:

152.4
152.42 22

LOC classification:

BF515 .C74

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Part 1: Enjoyment and intrinsic motivation -- Rewards of autotelic activities -- Structure of autotelic activities -- Part 2: 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 -- Part 3: Flow patterns in everyday life -- Effects of flow deprivation -- Politics of enjoyment -- Tests and procedures used in microflow experiments.

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

Also issued online.

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