Psychophysiological Correlates of Flow-Experience

Peifer, Corinna

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“…As a result, since engagement or flow can contribute to psychological well-being (see also Carli et al, 1988;Croom, 2012bCroom, , 2014Csikszentmihalyi, 1975Csikszentmihalyi, , 1990Csikszentmihalyi, , 2000De Manzano et al, 2010;Dietrich, 2004;Engeser, 2012;Ericsson et al, 1993;Hymer, 1984;Nakamura, 1988;Nakamura & Csikszentmihalyi, 2002Rich, 2013;Seligman, 2010Seligman, , 2011Shernoff & Csikszentmihalyi, 2009;Strati et al, 2011;Wells, 1988), and since several studies have indeed suggested that music practice and participation can contribute to engagement or flow experience (see also Bakker, 2005;De Manzano et al, 2010;Dietrich, 2004;Hatfield, Cacioppo, & Rapson, 1994;Hymer, 1984;Pates et al, 2003;Peifer, 2012;Rogatko, 2009;Schuler, 2012), there are good grounds for asserting that music practice and participation can positively contribute to psychological well-being.…”

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Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment

2014

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In "Flourish," Martin Seligman maintained that the elements of well-being consist of "PERMA: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment." Although the question of what constitutes human flourishing or psychological well-being has remained a topic of continued debate among scholars, it has recently been argued in the literature that a paradigmatic or prototypical case of human psychological well-being would largely manifest most or all of the aforementioned PERMA factors. Further, in "A Neuroscientific Perspective on Music Therapy," Stefan Koelsch also suggested that "Music therapy can have effects that improve the psychological and physiological health of individuals," so it seems plausible that engaging in practices of music can positively contribute to one living a more optimally flourishing life with greater psychological well-being. However, recent studies on music practice and participation have not yet been reviewed and integrated under the PERMA framework from positive psychology to further explore and explicate this possibility. This article therefore contributes to extant work by reviewing recent research on psychological well-being and music to offer support for the claim that music practice and participation can positively contribute to one living a flourishing life by positively influencing their emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment.

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Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment

2014

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“…Flow has been described as a rise of concentration and attention, and enhanced sense of control without keeping track of time (Csikszentmihalyi 1975(Csikszentmihalyi , 1991. Only recently have the first studies investigating the physiology of flow been published (de Manzano et al 2010;Keller et al 2011; for an overview see ;Peifer 2012;Peifer et al 2014Peifer et al , 2015, and they suggest flow experience to be associated with moderate activation of the sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. Further, studies have shown the involvement of parasympathetic activation (i.e., vagal tone) in modulating flow (Peifer et al 2014;Tozman et al 2015), thus pointing to a crucial role of the vagus nerve.…”

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Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) modulates flow experience

2017

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“…Although there is a lot of research on psychological correlates, studies on biological and neuropsychological correlates of flow have been rare (for a review, see Peifer, 2012). Flow has been found to correlate with cardiovascular, respiratory and EMG measures (de Manzano, Theorell, Harmat, & Ullen, 2010;Gaggioli, Cipresso, Serino, & Riva, 2013), suggesting relative sympathetic enhancement during flow.…”

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The Relationship Between Executive Functions and Flow in Learning

Golub

Rijavec²,

Olčar³

2016

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Abstract:The aim of the study is to assess the relationship between executive functions and flow experiences in learning. Female college students assessed their flow in learning activities and performed phonemic verbal fluency task (PVF) and a lexical Stroop task. Flow in learning was associated with performance on the PVF task, but not with the lexical Stroop task. In addition, flow in learning mediated the effects of verbal fluency performance on the Grade Point Average (GPA), while inhibition and controlled selective attention measured by the lexical Stroop test had direct effects on the GPA. Results suggested that the better executive functions embodied in verbal fluency task are cognitive correlates of flow. The results are also in line with the neurobiological model of flow pointing to brain regions that are suggested to be involved in language processing and the prefrontal brain region.

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Psychophysiological Correlates of Flow-Experience

Cited by 92 publications

References 59 publications

Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment

Music practice and participation for psychological well-being: A review of how music influences positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment

Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) modulates flow experience

The Relationship Between Executive Functions and Flow in Learning

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