Beyond Boredom and Anxiety

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2000-03-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This study provides an analysis of the concept of 'flow' - the state of peak enjoyment experienced by rock climbers, dancers, basketball players, surgeons. The presentation shows how to achieve the state in everyday work and play activities.

Experiencing Flow

Experiencing Flow
Author: Susan Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-06-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781950336838

Motivating Humans

Motivating Humans
Author: Martin E. Ford
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1992-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780803945296

Integrates classical and contemporary Motivation theory into a framework the author calls Motivational Systems Theory, from which he derives 17 principles for motivating humans. Shows how this can be applied to promote social responsibility in youth, and increase work productivity and learning achievement.

The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning

The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning
Author: K. Ann Renninger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1172
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1316832473

Written by leading researchers in educational and social psychology, learning science, and neuroscience, this edited volume is suitable for a wide-academic readership. It gives definitions of key terms related to motivation and learning alongside developed explanations of significant findings in the field. It also presents cohesive descriptions concerning how motivation relates to learning, and produces a novel and insightful combination of issues and findings from studies of motivation and/or learning across the authors' collective range of scientific fields. The authors provide a variety of perspectives on motivational constructs and their measurement, which can be used by multiple and distinct scientific communities, both basic and applied.

Flow

Flow
Author: Mihaly Csikszent
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1991-03-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0060920432

An introduction to "flow," a new field of behavioral science that offers life-fulfilling potential, explains its principles and shows how to introduce flow into all aspects of life, avoiding the interferences of disharmony.

Ecclesial Identification beyond Late Modern Individualism?

Ecclesial Identification beyond Late Modern Individualism?
Author: Karl Inge Tangen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004184805

Why do some late modern churches grow, counter to the trend in Western Europe? Why do people identify with such churches – and does identification lead to morally transforming commitments beyond late modern consumerism? This case study investigates these questions based on ‘real life’ or empirical research, which include both the level of individual life strategies and organisational practice in two growing European churches. This innovative and interdisciplinary study draws on recent findings in theology, moral philosophy, sociology and organisational psychology. Its findings may prove useful not only for scholars in these disciplines, it may also enrich the reflection of practitioners who seek to perform the difficult art of transformational leadership in a late modern context.

Happier?

Happier?
Author: Daniel Horowitz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 019065564X

Happier? provides the first history of the origins, development, and impact of the shift in how Americans - and now many around the world - consider the human condition. This change, which came about from the fusing of beliefs and knowledge from Eastern spiritual traditions, behavioral economics, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and cognitive psychology, has been led by scholars and academic entrepreneurs, in play with forces such as neoliberalism and cultural conservatism, and a public eager for self-improvement. Ultimately, the book illuminates how positive psychology, one of the most influential academic fields of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, infused American culture with captivating promises for a happier society.

Being Adolescent

Being Adolescent
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1986-10-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780465006458

To find out what teenagers' lives are like, two psychologists gave beepers to seventy-five adolescents, signaled them at random, and asked them to record their thoughts and feelings as they sat in classrooms, socialized with friends, and ate dinner with their families. The result is a unique and detailed portrait of the day-to-day world of the average American teenager that offers valuable new insights for parents, psychologists, and educators.