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A Scoping Review of Flow Research

Flow is a gratifying state of deep involvement and absorption that individuals report when facing a challenging activity and they perceive adequate abilities to cope with it (EFRN, 2014). The flow concept was introduced by Csikszentmihalyi in 1975, and interest in flow research is growing. However,...

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Autores principales: Peifer, Corinna, Wolters, Gina, Harmat, László, Heutte, Jean, Tan, Jasmine, Freire, Teresa, Tavares, Dionísia, Fonte, Carla, Andersen, Frans Orsted, van den Hout, Jef, Šimleša, Milija, Pola, Linda, Ceja, Lucia, Triberti, Stefano
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9022035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35465560
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.815665
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author Peifer, Corinna
Wolters, Gina
Harmat, László
Heutte, Jean
Tan, Jasmine
Freire, Teresa
Tavares, Dionísia
Fonte, Carla
Andersen, Frans Orsted
van den Hout, Jef
Šimleša, Milija
Pola, Linda
Ceja, Lucia
Triberti, Stefano
author_facet Peifer, Corinna
Wolters, Gina
Harmat, László
Heutte, Jean
Tan, Jasmine
Freire, Teresa
Tavares, Dionísia
Fonte, Carla
Andersen, Frans Orsted
van den Hout, Jef
Šimleša, Milija
Pola, Linda
Ceja, Lucia
Triberti, Stefano
author_sort Peifer, Corinna
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description Flow is a gratifying state of deep involvement and absorption that individuals report when facing a challenging activity and they perceive adequate abilities to cope with it (EFRN, 2014). The flow concept was introduced by Csikszentmihalyi in 1975, and interest in flow research is growing. However, to our best knowledge, no scoping review exists that takes a systematic look at studies on flow which were published between the years 2000 and 2016. Overall, 252 studies have been included in this review. Our review (1) provides a framework to cluster flow research, (2) gives a systematic overview about existing studies and their findings, and (3) provides an overview about implications for future research. The provided framework consists of three levels of flow research. In the first “Individual” level are the categories for personality, motivation, physiology, emotion, cognition, and behavior. The second “Contextual” level contains the categories for contextual and interindividual factors and the third “Cultural” level contains cultural factors that relate to flow. Using our framework, we systematically present the findings for each category. While flow research has made progress in understanding flow, in the future, more experimental and longitudinal studies are needed to gain deeper insights into the causal structure of flow and its antecedents and consequences.
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spelling pubmed-90220352022-04-22 A Scoping Review of Flow Research Peifer, Corinna Wolters, Gina Harmat, László Heutte, Jean Tan, Jasmine Freire, Teresa Tavares, Dionísia Fonte, Carla Andersen, Frans Orsted van den Hout, Jef Šimleša, Milija Pola, Linda Ceja, Lucia Triberti, Stefano Front Psychol Psychology Flow is a gratifying state of deep involvement and absorption that individuals report when facing a challenging activity and they perceive adequate abilities to cope with it (EFRN, 2014). The flow concept was introduced by Csikszentmihalyi in 1975, and interest in flow research is growing. However, to our best knowledge, no scoping review exists that takes a systematic look at studies on flow which were published between the years 2000 and 2016. Overall, 252 studies have been included in this review. Our review (1) provides a framework to cluster flow research, (2) gives a systematic overview about existing studies and their findings, and (3) provides an overview about implications for future research. The provided framework consists of three levels of flow research. In the first “Individual” level are the categories for personality, motivation, physiology, emotion, cognition, and behavior. The second “Contextual” level contains the categories for contextual and interindividual factors and the third “Cultural” level contains cultural factors that relate to flow. Using our framework, we systematically present the findings for each category. While flow research has made progress in understanding flow, in the future, more experimental and longitudinal studies are needed to gain deeper insights into the causal structure of flow and its antecedents and consequences. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9022035/ /pubmed/35465560 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.815665 Text en Copyright © 2022 Peifer, Wolters, Harmat, Heutte, Tan, Freire, Tavares, Fonte, Andersen, van den Hout, Šimleša, Pola, Ceja and Triberti. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Peifer, Corinna
Wolters, Gina
Harmat, László
Heutte, Jean
Tan, Jasmine
Freire, Teresa
Tavares, Dionísia
Fonte, Carla
Andersen, Frans Orsted
van den Hout, Jef
Šimleša, Milija
Pola, Linda
Ceja, Lucia
Triberti, Stefano
A Scoping Review of Flow Research
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9022035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35465560
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.815665
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