Beyond boredom and anxiety

The book was organized and compressed with OCR

1. Enjoyment and Intrinsic Motivation 1

2. Rewards of Autotelic Activities 13

3. Structure of Autotelic Activities 24

PART TWO

4. A Theoretical Model for Enjoyment 35

5. Enjoying Games: Chess 55

6. Deep Play and the Flow Experience in Rock Climbing 74

7. Measuring the Flow Experience in Rock Dancing 102

8. Enjoying Work: Surgery 123

PART THREE

9. Flow Patterns in Everyday Life 140

10. Effects of Flow Deprivation 161

11. Politics of Enjoyment 179

Tests and Procedures Used in Microflow Experiments 207

References 215

Index 225