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Author Inghilleri, P. (Paolo), author.

Title Enabling positive change : flow and complexity in daily experience / Paolo Inghilleri, Giuseppe Riva and Eleonora Riva
Published [Berlin, Germany]: De Gruyter Open, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations
Series Psychology
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributing authors -- Preface / Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly -- Introduction: Positive Change in Global World: Creative Individuals and Complex Societies / Inghilleri, Paolo ; Riva, Giuseppe ; Riva, Eleonora -- 1 Phenomenology of Positive Change: Social Growth / Inghilleri, Paolo -- 2 Phenomenology of Positive Change: Personal Growth / Riva, Giuseppe -- 3 Positive Change and Positive Technology / Riva, Giuseppe ; Gaggioli, Andrea -- 4 Positive Change and Networked Flow: From Creative Individuals to Creative Networks / Gaggioli, Andrea ; Milani, Luca ; Mazzoni, Elvis ; Riva, Giuseppe -- 5 Positive change in clinical settings: flow experience in psychodynamic therapies / Riva, Eleonora ; Rainisio, Nicola ; Boffi, Marco -- 6 Positive Change in Environment: Aesthetics, Environmental Flowability and Well-Being / Rainisio, Nicola ; Boffi, Marco ; Riva, Eleonora -- 7 Positive Change and Political Participation: Well-Being as an Indicator of the Quality of Citizens' Engagement / Boffi, Marco ; Riva, Eleonora ; Rainisio, Nicola -- 8 Positive Change and Scholastic Education / Cavanagh, Rob ; Sharnoff, David -- 9 Positive Change and Flow in Sport / Diana, Barbara ; Argenton, Luca ; Muzio, Marisa -- 10 Positive Change and Transgenerational Relationships in Family Business / Inghilleri, Paolo ; Cesaro, Franco -- 11 Positive Change and Mentoring in Adulthood / Nakamura, Jeanne -- 12 Positive Change and Quality of Time in Daily Life / Fischman, Wendy ; Barendsen, Lynn -- Author Index -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index
Summary The book describes promotion and fostering of positive psychological change in everyday life, focusing on the concept of Flow of Consciousness - an experience of subjective psychological wellbeing that nourishes and complexifies the Self. The authors propose a wide overview of positive psychological experience, considering individual characteristics, the influence of context, culture, social relationships, and new technologies environments
Analysis Cultural Artifacts
Flow of Consciousness
Identity development
Positive Psychology
Psychological Change
Subjective experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 06/22/2020)
Subject Change (Psychology)
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Positive psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY / General.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Positive psychology
Change (Psychology)
Psychology
Social sciences -- Psychology -- Applied Psychology.
Social sciences -- Psychology -- Psychology, other.
Social sciences -- Sociology -- Culture.
Form Electronic book
Author Riva, Giuseppe, 1967- author.
Riva, Eleonora, 1975- author.
LC no. 2020394781
ISBN 9783110410242
3110410249
3110439476
3110410230
9783110410235
9783110439472