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Title Optimal experience : psychological studies of flow in consciousness / edited by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Description xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
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
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
Analysis Man Consciousness Psychological aspects
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 384-401
Subject Consciousness -- Cross-cultural studies.
Consciousness.
Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnopsychology.
Leisure -- Research.
Consciousness.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Author Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly.
LC no. 87024289
ISBN 0521342880