Aellig
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | The sense in not being sensible: Flow experience and well being as motivation for autotelic activities An investigation of the example of rock climbing using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) |
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Der Sinn des Unsinns: Flow-Erleben und Wohlbefinden als Anreiz für autotelische Tätigkeiten. Eine Untersuchung mit der Experience Sampling Method (ESM) am Beispiel des Felskletterns |
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | The project addresses open questions regarding flow theory by Csikszentmihalyi (1975). Sport climbers (35 in total, 21 men and 14 women) were studied while rock climbing (two days) and also in daily work life (four days) using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). Emotional well being and experience of the activity during rock climbing (as representative of an activity with a strongly autotelic character) prove to be of extremely high quality and, in particular, intensity, both in comparison to other climbing activities and in contrast to daily activities at work. The study reveals that direct and therefore distortion-free investigation of a paradigmatic flow experience, of which rock climbing seems to be an example, produces valuable information for our understanding of the quality of optimal experience. (This study is part of the project "Quality of experience in everyday life".) | ||||
| Publications / Publikationen | Aellig, Steff (2004). Über den Sinn des Unsinns: Flow-Erleben und Wohlbefinden als Anreiz autotelischer Tätigkeiten. Eine Untersuchung mit der Experience Sampling Method (ESM) am Beispiel des Felskletterns. Münster: Waxman. | ||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | flow, flow experience, optimal experience, peak experience, well being, happiness, positive psychology, motivation, autotelic activity, activity incentives, work, leisure time, sports, climbing, rock climbing, Experience Sampling Method | ||||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), Forschungskredit der Universität Zürich |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Dec 2001 to May 2003 |