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  title info:
    title: Psychological Selection and Optimal Experience Across Cultures
    sub title: Social Empowerment through Personal Growth
  name:
    name part: Delle Fave, Antonella.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Massimini, Fausto.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bassi, Marta.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 369 p. online resource.
  abstract: Studies on well-being derive from two main perspectives: hedonism and eudaimonism. The former emphasizes the human search for pleasure and satisfaction while the latter focuses on fulfillment of one’s true nature that includes both self-actualization and commitment to socially shared goals. Operating under the eudaimonic approach, Psychological Selection and Optimal Experience Across Cultures uses recent advancements in positive psychology to explore the connections between personal well-being and social welfare. People grow and live in cultures that deeply influence their values, aspirations and behaviors. However, individuals in their turn play an active role in building their own goals, growth trajectories and social roles while at the same time influencing culture trends. This process, known as psychological selection, is related to the individual pursuit of well-being. People preferentially select and cultivate in their lives activities, interests and relationships associated with optimal experience—a state of deep engagement, concentration and enjoyment. Several cross-cultural studies confirm the positive and rewarding features of optimal experience, and based on these evidences this book highlights the interplay between individual and cultural growth trajectories, ultimately conveying the core message that educating people to enjoy engagement and involvement in activities that can be relevant and meaningful for social welfare is a premise to foster the harmonious development of human communities and the peaceful cohabitation of cultures. Interest in eudaimonia has grown rapidly, especially in the past five years. Given this book’s emphasis on the role of individuals as active agents in shaping their cultural environment and in promoting both their own development and cultural complexity, it fills a unique place in the increasing demand for studies in the field. Aimed at researchers and students in Psychology, Education, Health and the Social Sciences, it is u…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I Theory and methods -- Chapter 1: Hedonism and eudaimonism in positive psychology -- Chapter 2: Biology, culture and human behavior -- Chapter 3: Psychological selection and optimal experience -- Chapter 4: Instruments and methods in flow research -- Chapter 5: The phenomenology of optimal experience in daily life -- Chapter 6: Optimal experience and meditation: Western and Asian approaches to well-being -- Part II Applications -- Chapter 7: Optimal experience across cultures -- Chapter 8 Work: A paradox in flow research -- Chapter 9: Free time: an opportunity for growth, recreation, or stagnation -- Chapter 10: Relationships: safe harbor for flow explorers -- Chapter 11: Education, learning and cultural transmission -- Chapter 12: Optimal experience and religious practice -- Chapter 13: Acculturation and optimal experience -- Chapter 14: Flow and health: a bio-psycho-social perspective -- Chapter 15: Psychosocial maladjustment and mimetic flow -- References -- Epilogue. .
  note: by Antonella Delle Fave, Fausto Massimini, Marta Bassi.
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Medical research
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
  subject:
    topic: Positive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Positive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Quality of Life Research
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  classification: BF204.6
  classification: 150.1988
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, 2
  identifier: 9789048198764
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9876-4
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    record creation date: 110131
    record change date: 20151109101631.0
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