Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology

By Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. 2014

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Essentials of a Theory of Language Cognition (2019, background): “Csikszentmihalyi (2014) refers to optimal experience as “flow”: It is useful to remember occasionally that life unfolds as a chain of subjective experiences.”
Science class is too hard: Perceived difficulty, disengagement, and the role of teacher autonomy support from a daily diary perspective (2018, background): “One straightforward solution is to adjust the task demands or the level of the challenge of classwork to make sure it matches students' skills (e.g., Nakamura & Csikszentmihalyi, 2014, pp. 239–263) or to guide and scaffold students interaction with a task so that they can handle the challenge with…”
Human Emotion Recognition: Review of Sensors and Methods (2020, background): “To andle this issue, the majority of studies of emotion eval ation f cuses on other classifications [3,21], which i clude dimensions of emotions, in most cases valence (activation—negati /positive) and arousal (high/low) [23,24], and analyses only basic emotions which can be defined more easily.”
Risk-tourism, risk-taking and subjective well-being: A review and synthesis (2017, background): “Risk-Activity Csikszentmihályi (2000, 2014) Lyng (1990) Identified key features of flow states in peak experiences: the merging of action and awareness; the centering of attention on a limited stimulus field; loss of ego; the control of action and environment; demands for action and clear feedback…”
Smartphones and Cognition: A Review of Research Exploring the Links between Mobile Technology Habits and Cognitive Functioning (2017, background): “A ﬂow state relates to sustained attention in that it is “a state of concentration so focused that it amounts to absolute absorption in an activity” (Csikszentmihalyi et al., 2014).”
Student Motivation and Associated Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis From Self-Determination Theory (2021, background): “has also been a focus of other theories, including Krapp’s (2002) interest theory and Csikzentmihalyi’s theory of flow (Csikszentmihalyi et al., 2014).”
Customer experience in tourism: A review of definitions, components, and measurements (2020, methodology): “The experience sampling method aimed at providing the temporal profile of experience is also influenced by self-report biases (Csikszentmihalyi & Larson, 2014).”
Creating brand engagement through in-store gamified customer experiences (2019, background): “The creation of hedonic experiences through game-related challenges can be described using the theoretical perspective of flow (Cowley et al., 2008; Csikszentmihalyi, 2014; Sweetser and Wyeth, 2005).”