Beyond boredom and anxiety

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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 intrin…

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Title Statements

Full title :Beyond boredom and anxiety / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ; with contributions by Isabella Csikszentmihalyi [and others].

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1975.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Jossey-Bass Publishers
Place of Publication:San Francisco
Language:eng
Publication Date:1975.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 231 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0875892612, 9780875892610
oclc:ocm03017986
LC Classification:BF515
Dewey Decimal:152.4

Part 1: Enjoyment and intrinsic motivation -- Rewards of autotelic activities -- Structure of autotelic activities -- Part 2: A theoretical model for enjoyment -- Enjoying games: chess -- Deep play and the flow experience in rock climbing -- Measuring the flow experience in rock dancing -- Enjoying work: surgery -- Part 3: Flow patterns in everyday life -- Effects of flow deprivation -- Politics of enjoyment -- Tests and procedures used in microflow experiments.

Subjects

games Games -- Psychological aspects Jeu Jeu -- Aspect psychologique Jeux Plaisir Play Play -- Psychological aspects play (recreation) Play and Playthings Pleasure Psychologie Spiel Travail -- Aspect psychologique Work -- Psychological aspects