Investigating the "Flow" Experience: Key Conceptual and Operational Issues.
Frontiers in Psychology 2020 Sami Abuhamdeh 140 citations
The "flow" experience (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975) has been the focus of a large body of empirical work spanning more than four decades. Nevertheless, advancement in understanding - beyond what Csikszentmihalyi uncovered during his initial breakthrough in 1975 - has been modest. In this conceptual analysis, it is argued that progress within the field has been impeded by a lack of consistency in how...