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📋 Summary

Flow: Components & Models 🌊9️⃣

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

1. The 9 Components of Flow 🌊9️⃣

  • 1️⃣ Challenge-skill balance ⚖️
  • 2️⃣ Clear goals 🎯
  • 3️⃣ Immediate feedback ↩️
  • 4️⃣ Action-awareness merging 🤝
  • 5️⃣ Concentration on task 🧠🔒
  • 6️⃣ Sense of control 🎮
  • 7️⃣ Loss of self-consciousness 👤❌
  • 8️⃣ Transformation of time ⏰🔄
  • 9️⃣ Autotelic experience (intrinsically rewarding) 🌟

2. The Flow Channel Model 📊

  • High challenge + Low skill = ANXIETY 😰
  • Low challenge + High skill = BOREDOM 😴
  • Matched challenge + skill = FLOW 🌊✨

3. Autotelic Personality 🌟👤

  • Auto = self; Telos = goal/purpose 🇬🇷
  • People who experience flow more frequently 🔄🌊
  • Do activities for their own sake, not rewards 🎁❌