Beyond boredom and anxiety / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Material type: TextPublisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary editionDescription: xxx, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0787951404
- 9780787951405
- 152.42 22
- BF515 .C74 2000
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152.42 CSI Flow : the psychology of happiness / | 152.42 CSI Beyond boredom and anxiety / | 152.42 CSI Flow : the psychology of optimal experience / | 152.42 CSI Beyond boredom and anxiety / | 152.42 CSI Flow : the psychology of optimal experience / | 152.42 FEL What is this thing called happiness / | 152.42 GRE Private life of the brain : emotions, consciousness, and the secret of the self / |
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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