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Enabling positive change : flow and complexity in daily experience / Paolo Inghilleri, Giuseppe Riva and Eleonora Riva.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: PsychologyPublisher: [Berlin, Germany]: De Gruyter Open, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110410242
  • 3110410249
  • 3110439476
  • 3110410230
  • 9783110410235
  • 9783110439472
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Enabling positive change : flow and complexity in daily experience.DDC classification:
  • 150.1988
LOC classification:
  • BF637.C4
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributing authors -- Preface / Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly -- Introduction: Positive Change in Global World: Creative Individuals and Complex Societies / Inghilleri, Paolo ; Riva, Giuseppe ; Riva, Eleonora -- 1 Phenomenology of Positive Change: Social Growth / Inghilleri, Paolo -- 2 Phenomenology of Positive Change: Personal Growth / Riva, Giuseppe -- 3 Positive Change and Positive Technology / Riva, Giuseppe ; Gaggioli, Andrea -- 4 Positive Change and Networked Flow: From Creative Individuals to Creative Networks / Gaggioli, Andrea ; Milani, Luca ; Mazzoni, Elvis ; Riva, Giuseppe -- 5 Positive change in clinical settings: flow experience in psychodynamic therapies / Riva, Eleonora ; Rainisio, Nicola ; Boffi, Marco -- 6 Positive Change in Environment: Aesthetics, Environmental Flowability and Well-Being / Rainisio, Nicola ; Boffi, Marco ; Riva, Eleonora -- 7 Positive Change and Political Participation: Well-Being as an Indicator of the Quality of Citizens' Engagement / Boffi, Marco ; Riva, Eleonora ; Rainisio, Nicola -- 8 Positive Change and Scholastic Education / Cavanagh, Rob ; Sharnoff, David -- 9 Positive Change and Flow in Sport / Diana, Barbara ; Argenton, Luca ; Muzio, Marisa -- 10 Positive Change and Transgenerational Relationships in Family Business / Inghilleri, Paolo ; Cesaro, Franco -- 11 Positive Change and Mentoring in Adulthood / Nakamura, Jeanne -- 12 Positive Change and Quality of Time in Daily Life / Fischman, Wendy ; Barendsen, Lynn -- Author Index -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index.
Summary: The book describes promotion and fostering of positive psychological change in everyday life, focusing on the concept of Flow of Consciousness - an experience of subjective psychological wellbeing that nourishes and complexifies the Self. The authors propose a wide overview of positive psychological experience, considering individual characteristics, the influence of context, culture, social relationships, and new technologies environments.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributing authors -- Preface / Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly -- Introduction: Positive Change in Global World: Creative Individuals and Complex Societies / Inghilleri, Paolo ; Riva, Giuseppe ; Riva, Eleonora -- 1 Phenomenology of Positive Change: Social Growth / Inghilleri, Paolo -- 2 Phenomenology of Positive Change: Personal Growth / Riva, Giuseppe -- 3 Positive Change and Positive Technology / Riva, Giuseppe ; Gaggioli, Andrea -- 4 Positive Change and Networked Flow: From Creative Individuals to Creative Networks / Gaggioli, Andrea ; Milani, Luca ; Mazzoni, Elvis ; Riva, Giuseppe -- 5 Positive change in clinical settings: flow experience in psychodynamic therapies / Riva, Eleonora ; Rainisio, Nicola ; Boffi, Marco -- 6 Positive Change in Environment: Aesthetics, Environmental Flowability and Well-Being / Rainisio, Nicola ; Boffi, Marco ; Riva, Eleonora -- 7 Positive Change and Political Participation: Well-Being as an Indicator of the Quality of Citizens' Engagement / Boffi, Marco ; Riva, Eleonora ; Rainisio, Nicola -- 8 Positive Change and Scholastic Education / Cavanagh, Rob ; Sharnoff, David -- 9 Positive Change and Flow in Sport / Diana, Barbara ; Argenton, Luca ; Muzio, Marisa -- 10 Positive Change and Transgenerational Relationships in Family Business / Inghilleri, Paolo ; Cesaro, Franco -- 11 Positive Change and Mentoring in Adulthood / Nakamura, Jeanne -- 12 Positive Change and Quality of Time in Daily Life / Fischman, Wendy ; Barendsen, Lynn -- Author Index -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index.

The book describes promotion and fostering of positive psychological change in everyday life, focusing on the concept of Flow of Consciousness - an experience of subjective psychological wellbeing that nourishes and complexifies the Self. The authors propose a wide overview of positive psychological experience, considering individual characteristics, the influence of context, culture, social relationships, and new technologies environments.

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