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Beyond boredom and anxiety / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary editionDescription: xxx, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0787951404
  • 9780787951405
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.42 22
LOC classification:
  • BF515 .C74 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 152.42 CSI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A263287B

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.

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