Advances in Flow Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Historical Lines and an Overview of Current Research on Flow

   • Stefan Engeser, Anja Schiepe-Tiska, Corinna Peifer

   Pages 1-29

3. On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Flow

   • Giovanni B. Moneta

   Pages 31-69

4. Antecedents, Boundary Conditions and Consequences of Flow

   • Michael Barthelmäs, Johannes Keller

   Pages 71-107

5. Flow in Nonachievement Situations

   • Anja Schiepe-Tiska, Stefan Engeser

   Pages 109-136

6. Flow Theory and Cognitive Evaluation Theory: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

   • Sami Abuhamdeh

   Pages 137-153

7. On the Relationship Between Flow and Enjoyment

   • Sami Abuhamdeh

   Pages 155-169

8. The Dark Side of the Moon

   • Zsuzsanna Zimanyi, Julia Schüler

   Pages 171-190

9. The Psychophysiology of Flow Experience

   • Corinna Peifer, Jasmine Tan

   Pages 191-230

10. Autotelic Personality

    • Nicola Baumann

    Pages 231-261

11. Social Flow

    • Charles J. Walker

    Pages 263-286

12. Flow in the Context of Work

    • Corinna Peifer, Gina Wolters

    Pages 287-321

13. Flow Experience in Human Development: Understanding Optimal Functioning Along the Lifespan

    • Teresa Freire, Keith Gissubel, Dionísia Tavares, Ana Teixeira

    Pages 323-349

14. Flow in Sports and Exercise: A Historical Overview

    • Oliver Stoll, Michele Ufer

    Pages 351-375

15. Flow in Music and Arts

    • László Harmat, Örjan de Manzano, Fredrik Ullén

    Pages 377-391

16. Flowing Technologies: The Role of Flow and Related Constructs in Human-Computer Interaction

    • Stefano Triberti, Anna Flavia Di Natale, Andrea Gaggioli

    Pages 393-416

17. Theoretical Integration and Future Lines of Flow Research

    • Corinna Peifer, Stefan Engeser

    Pages 417-439

18. Back Matter

    Pages 441-453

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This second edition provides a review of the current flow research. The first, thoroughly revised and extended, part of the book, addresses basic concepts, correlates, conditions and consequences of flow experience. This includes the developments of the flow model, methods to measure flow, its physiological correlates, personality factors involved in the emergence of flow, social flow, the relationship of flow with performance and wellbeing, but also possible negative consequences of flow. The second, completely new, part of the book addresses flow in diverse contexts, in particular, work, development, sports, music and arts, and human computer interaction. As such, the book provides a broad overview on the current state of flow research – from the basics to specific contexts of application. It presents what has been learned since the beginning of flow research, what is still open, and how the mission to understand and foster flow should continue. The book addresses researchers and students who are interested in flow, as well as practitioners who seek for sound research on flow in their field of expertise.

• Concept of Flow
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Well-Being and Positive Psychology
• Flow and Motivation
• Flow and Optimal Experience
• Conditions and Consequences of Flow-Experience
• Developments of the Flow Model
• Methods Measuring Flow
• Negative Consequences of Flow
• Flow in the Work Space
• Flow and Education
• Flow and Human Computer Interaction
• Flow and Sports
• Flow and Music

• Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

  Corinna Peifer

• Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany

  Stefan Engeser

Corinna Peifer, PhD, is Professor for Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Lübeck, Germany. Her research is located at the interface between Work- and Organizational Psychology and Psychophysiology, and she is particularly interested in how flow relates to stress and wellbeing. Corinna Peifer is founding member of the European Flow-Researchers’ Network (EFRN), Country Representative Germany for the European Network for Positive Psychology (ENPP) and Vice-President of the German Association of Positive Psychology Research (DGPPF).
 
Stefan Engeser, PhD, teaches psychology at the University of Trier. He also works as a trained clinical psychotherapist. His research focuses on learning and achievement motivation and individual differences in motive strength. As part of his research on motivation he is particularly interested in flow in achievement contexts and in daily life. He has done research on flow for about 20 years after his interest in flow started as a PhD student of Falko Rheinberg (who was the first researcher on flow in Germany). His practical interest refers to motivational aspects in behavioral therapy with flow representing an important source of motivation.

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