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Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness
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Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness Hardcover - 1988 - 1st Edition

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Editor); Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (Editor)


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What constitutes enjoyment of life? Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical and empirical investigations of the "flow" experience, a desirable or optimal state of consciousness that enhances a person's psychic state. "Flow" can be said to occur when people are able to meet the challenges of their environment with appropriate skills, and accordingly feel a sense of well-being, a sense of mastery, and a heightened sense of self-esteem. The authors show the diverse contexts and circumstances in which flow is reported in different cultures (e.g. Japan, Korea, Australia, Italy), and describe its positive emotional impacts. They reflect on the concept of flow vis--vis modern social structures, historical phenomena, and evolutionary biocultural selection. The ways in which the ability to experience flow affects work satisfaction, academic success, and the overall quality of life are suggested; and the childrearing practices that result in the ability to derive enjoyment from life, considered.

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Some ten years ago the first publications reporting studies of what we have called the "flow experience" appeared in print, beginning with an article in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and then the book Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (Csikszentmihalyi 1975a, 1975b).

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  • Title Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness
  • Author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Editor); Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date August 26, 1988
  • ISBN 9780521342889 / 0521342880
  • Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 1.42 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 3.61 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Consciousness, Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 87024289
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153
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