Research Catalog

Title

Optimal experience : psychological studies of flow in consciousness / edited by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992, ©1988.

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Additional Authors

• Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly.
• Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega.

Description

xiv, 416 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Man > Consciousness > Psychological aspects
• Humans > Consciousness
• Consciousness > Cross-cultural studies

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 384-401.

Contents

• A theoretical model of optimal experience : introduction ; The flow experience and its significance for human psychology / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi--Sociological implications of the flow experience / Richard G. Mitchell, Jr.--Flow and biocultural evolution / Fausto Massimini, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Antonella Delle Fave--Varieties of the flow experience : introduction to Part II / Mihaly and Isabella Csikszentmihalyi--Bosozoku : flow in Japanese motorcycle gangs / Ikuya Sato--Women, work, and flow / Maria T. Allison and Margaret Carlisle Duncan--The relationship between life satisfaction and flow in elderly Korean immigrants / Seongyeul Han--Flow and writing / Reed Larson--Flow in solitary ordeals / Richard D. Logan
• (cont.) Flow as a way of life : introduction to part III / Isabella and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi--Modernization and the changing contexts of flow in work and leisure / Antonella Delle Fave and Fausto Massimini--Ocean cruising / Jim Macbeth--Flow in a historical context : the case of the Jesuits / Isabella Csikszentmihalyi--The measurement of flow in everyday life : introduction to part IV / Mihaly and Isabella Csikszentmihalyi--The systematic assessment of flow in daily experience / Fausto Massimini and Massimo Carli--The quality of experience in the flow channels : comparison of Italian and U.S. students / Massimo Carli, Antonella Delle Fave, and Fausto Massimini--Flow and the quality of experience during work and leisure / Judith Lefevre.
• (cont.) Optimal experience and the uses of talent / Jeanne Nakamura--Self-esteem and optimal experience / Anne J. Wells--Optimal experience and the family context / Kevin Rathunde--The future of flow / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

ISBN

0521438098

LCCN

gb 93045667

OCLC

ocm26654694

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries