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Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology

The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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  1. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    1. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA

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  • Clearly connects research with everyday life issues
  • Shows out-of-the-box thinking by looking at attention from a variety of disciplines
  • Describes the birth and development of the concept of flow
  • Reflects on the basis and importance of positive psychology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Attention and the Holistic Approach to Behavior

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Experience Sampling Method

    • Reed Larson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 21-34

  4. Validity and Reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Reed Larson
    Pages 35-54

  5. The Experience of Freedom in Daily Life

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald Graef
    Pages 55-67

  6. The Situational and Personal Correlates of Happiness: A Cross-National Comparison

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Maria Mei-Ha Wong
    Pages 69-88

  7. Happiness in Everyday Life: The Uses of Experience Sampling

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jeremy Hunter
    Pages 89-101

  8. Television as Escape: Subjective Experience Before an Evening of Heavy Viewing

    • Robert W. Kubey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 103-111

  9. Measuring Intrinsic Motivation in Everyday Life

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald Graef, Susan McManama Gianinno
    Pages 113-125

  10. Energy Consumption in Leisure and Perceived Happiness

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald Graef, Susan McManama Gianinno
    Pages 127-133

  11. Play and Intrinsic Rewards

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 135-153

  12. Motivation and Creativity: Towards a Synthesis of Structural and Energistic Approaches to Cognition

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 155-173

  13. The Dynamics of Intrinsic Motivation: A Study of Adolescents

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jeanne Nakamura
    Pages 175-197

  14. Emerging Goals and the Self-Regulation of Behavior

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jeanne Nakamura
    Pages 199-208

  15. Toward a Psychology of Optimal Experience

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 209-226

  16. Flow

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Sami Abuhamdeh, Jeanne Nakamura
    Pages 227-238

  17. The Concept of Flow

    • Jeanne Nakamura, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 239-263

  18. Flow with Soul

    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 265-278

  19. Positive Psychology: An Introduction

    • Martin E. P. Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    Pages 279-298
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About this book

The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi‘s work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and in the footsteps of William James, Csikszentmihalyi explores the allocation of attention, the when and where and the amount of attention humans pay to tasks and the role of attention in creating ‘experiences’, or ordered patterns of information. Taking into account information processing theories and attempts at quantifying people’s investment, the chapters deal with such topics as time budgets and the development and use of the Experience Sampling Method of collecting data on attention in everyday life. Following the chapters on attention and reflecting Csikszentmihalyi’s branching out into sociology and anthropology, there are chapters on the topic of adult play and leisure and connected to that, on flow, a concept formulated and developed by Csikszentmihalyi. Flow has become a popular concept in business and management around the world and research on the concept continues to flourish. Finally, this volume contains articles that stem from Csikszentmihalyi’s connection with Martin Seligman; they deal with concepts and theories, as well as with the development and short history, of the field and the “movement” of positive psychology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, USA

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

About the author

A Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. He is noted for both his work in the study of happiness and creativity and also for his notoriously difficult name, in terms of pronunciation for non-native speakers of the Hungarian language, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology. Csikszentmihalyi once said "Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosendiscipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason." His works are influential and are widely cited.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology

  • Book Subtitle: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • Authors: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9088-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9087-1Published: 21 August 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0551-4Published: 11 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9088-8Published: 08 August 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 298

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Educational Psychology

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