Flow Experience Empirical Research and Applications [Paperback]

This volume provides updates and informs the reader about the development of the current empirical research on the flow experience. It opens up some new research questions at the frontiers of the field. The book offers an overview on the latest findings in flow research in several fields such as social psychology, neuropsychology, performing arts and sport, education, work and everyday experiences. It integrates the latest knowledge on experimental studies of optimal experience with the theoretical foundation of psychological flow that was laid down in the last decades.Preface.- PART I. Flow Experience: General Introduction.- Chapter 1. Flow and Psychological Selection; Antonella Delle Fave and Marta Bassi.- Part II. Flow in Arts and Sports.- Chapter 2. Finding Flow in Music Practice: An Exploratory Study about Self-Regulated Practice Behaviours and Dispositions to Flow in Highly Skilled Musicians; Ajaur? M.V. and Heim C.F.- Chapter 3. The Experience of Flow in Artistic Creation; Tatiana Chemi.- Chapter 4. Flow in Sport; Christian Swann.- Chapter 5. Running and Flow. Does Controlled Running lead to Flow-States?: Testing the Transient Hypofrontality Theory; Oliver Stoll and Jan M. Pithan.- Part III. Flow, Creativity and Productivity.- Chapter 6. Flow in Creativity: A Review of Potential Theoretical Conflict; Genevieve M. Cseh.- Chapter 7. Intuition and Flow; Lauri J?rvilehto.- Chapter 8. Flow at Work as a Moderator of the Self-Determination Model of Engagement; Daniela De Fraga and Giovanni B. Moneta.- Part IV. Flow in Education.- Chapter 9. The EduFlow Model: A Contribution Toward the Study of Optimal Learning Environments; Jeanne Heutte, Fabien Fenouillet, Jonathan Kaplan, Charles Martin-Krumm and R?mi Bachelet.- Chapter 10. Using ESM to Study Flow in a STEM Project; Frans ?rsted Andersen.- Chapter 11. Flow, Leisure, and Positive Youth Development; Teresa Freire, Dion?sia Tavares, Eliana Silva and Ana Teixeira.- Part V. Flow in Every Day Experiences.- Chapl#-