Beyond Boredom and Anxiety Experiencing Flow in Work and Play,9780787951405

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety Experiencing Flow in Work and Play

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780787951405
ISBN10: 0787951404
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-28
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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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.

Author Biography

MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, Ph.D., professor and former chair of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago, is currently the Davidson Professor of Management at Claremont Graduate University and director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990), Creativing: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1993), and Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everything in Life (1997).

Table of Contents

Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition ix
Acknowledgments to the First Edition xxix
PART ONE
Enjoyment and Intrinsic Motivation
1(12)
Rewards of Autotelic Activities
13(11)
Structure of Autotelic Activities
24(11)
PART TWO
A Theoretical Model for Enjoyment
35(20)
Enjoying Games: Chess
55(19)
Deep Play and the Flow Experience in Rock Climbing
74(28)
Measuring the Flow Experience in Rock Dancing
102(21)
Enjoying Work: Surgery
123(17)
PART THREE
Flow Patterns in Everyday Life
140(21)
Effects of Flow Deprivation
161(18)
Politics of Enjoyment
179(28)
Tests and Procedures Used in Microflow Experiments 207(8)
References 215(10)
Index 225

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