Flow

• Autor(a) principal: Sabatini, María Belén
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Kairós (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/29269
• topic: Experiência de fluxo; Diferenças por idade; Gênero; Experiencias de fluidez; Diferencias por edad; Género; Flow experience; Differences by age; Gender

Within the study of the positive aspects is the flow concept. This term was coined by Csikszentmihalyi (1975), to name the psychological state that people experience when they perform intrinsic motivating activities and in which the challenges of the situation equals the skills that the person has -or believes to have - to perform such activities. With respect to these flow experiences, there have been numerous studies to describe, understand their characteristics and their relationship with other variables in different contexts. Most of these investigations have included samples of young adult groups, and only a few of the elderly. Therefore, it is the aim of this paper to present the results of different works, which studied the flow in the senior citizen group, and then reflect on the possibilities offered by this stage of life to achieve optimal flow experiences.