Beyond Boredom and Anxiety

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1975
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

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 intrinsic enjoyment.

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.

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: 406
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004206175

Why do people identify with growing late modern churches – and does identification lead to morally transforming commitments beyond late modern consumerism? This case study presents findings that may inspire both social scientists and theological practitioners to new forms of thinking.

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.

Flow 2.0

Flow 2.0
Author: Stewart I. Donaldson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2025-01-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 139426299X

Thought-provoking resource on how the late Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's ideas can help us navigate our increasingly complex lives and world Flow 2.0 honors the legacy of the late Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, showing how some of his major contributions can be extended to improve our lives in 2024 and beyond. Csikszentmihalyi is best known for his work on the concept of “Flow,” which describes a state of optimal experience in which one's skills match the challenges of a situation, and for his role as a founder of positive psychology. Underlying much of this work was his innovative and groundbreaking use of pagers and questionnaires to produce a database based on people's self-reports of their ordinary experiences. His first book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience became a bestseller in 1990, which presented his conclusions based on that database in a warm, humanistic prose style. His other books, The Evolving Self (1993), Creativity (1996), and Good Business (2003), expanded on his theories in a variety of directions. Written by a close colleague and former student, Flow 2.0 includes discussion on: PERMA+4, a framework for work-related wellbeing, performance, and positive organizational psychology What Mihaly taught us about flow, including the basics of flow and optimal experience as well as flowing together as a collective Flow 2.0 across life contexts, such as in the new hybrid world of work, sports, leisure, and the future of digital society What Mihaly's insights mean for our lives, human flourishing, wellbeing, and positive functioning in the years ahead Flow 2.0 is an essential read for all individuals who followed Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and wish to continue building on his work to improve their own lives and the lives of those closest to them.

The Space of Boredom

The Space of Boredom
Author: Bruce O'Neill
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822373270

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver on the promises of liberalism, O'Neill shows how the city's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized around practices of consumption. Without a job to work, a home to make, or money to spend, the homeless—who include pensioners abandoned by their families and the state—struggle daily with the slow deterioration of their lives. O'Neill moves between homeless shelters and squatter camps, black labor markets and transit stations, detailing the lives of men and women who manage boredom by seeking stimulation, from conversation and coffee to sex in public restrooms or going to the mall or IKEA. Showing how boredom correlates with the downward mobility of Bucharest's homeless, O'Neill theorizes boredom as an enduring affect of globalization in order to provide a foundation from which to rethink the politics of alienation and displacement.

The Subcultures Reader

The Subcultures Reader
Author: Ken Gelder
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780415344159

Revised and update completely to include new research and theories, this second edition of a hugely successful book brings together a range of articles, from big names in the field, classic texts and new thinking on subcultures and their definitions.

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.