Seeking flow in the achievement domain: The achievement flow motive behind flow experience

Baumann, Nicola; Scheffer, David J.

doi:10.1007/s11031-010-9195-4

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“…One implication of PSI theory is that flow may be more common among people with contrasting personality traits that are likely to stimulate dynamic alternations between high and low positive affect. This prediction was empirically tested by Baumann and Scheffer (). These researchers focused on two types of traits: first, traits that are associated with inhibited positive affect (i.e., avoidant attachment, schizoid personality style, and introversion), and second, traits that are associated with restoring positive affect (i.e., mastery orientation, and having mastery‐approach goals).…”

Section: The Empirical Domains Of Internalization Vitality and Flowmentioning

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Becoming who you are: An integrative review of self‐determination theory and personality systems interactions theory

Koole

Schlinkert

Maldei

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Journal of Personality

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One of the enduring missions of personality science is to unravel what it takes to become a fully functioning person. In the present article, the authors address this matter from the perspectives of self-determination theory (SDT) and personality systems interactions (PSI) theory. SDT (a) is rooted in humanistic psychology; (b) has emphasized a first-person perspective on motivation and personality; (c) posits that the person, supported by the social environment, naturally moves toward growth through the satisfaction of basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. PSI theory (a) is rooted in German volition psychology; (b) has emphasized a third-person perspective on motivation and personality; and (c) posits that a fully functioning person can form and enact difficult intentions and integrate new experiences, and that such competencies are facilitated by affect regulation. The authors review empirical support for SDT and PSI theory, their convergences and divergences, and how the theories bear on recent empirical research on internalization, vitality, and achievement flow. The authors conclude that SDT and PSI theory offer complementary insights into developing a person's full potential.

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Section: The Empirical Domains Of Internalization Vitality and Flowmentioning

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“…Baumann and Scheffer's () findings are noteworthy given that avoidant attachment style presumably originates in a developmental history in which the person's relatedness needs were neglected (Mikulincer & Shaver, ).…”

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Becoming who you are: An integrative review of self‐determination theory and personality systems interactions theory

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Maldei

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Journal of Personality

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“…strong sense of purpose and will). These two qualities act as meta‐skills that autotelic individuals use to find flow in their daily activities (Nakamura & Csikszentmihalyi, ), but their roles in the flow experience have rarely been examined (Baumann & Scheffer, ). We therefore extend this line of reasoning by suggesting that individuals who are open to experience and have a strong purpose will have a greater appreciation for flow experiences and may derive greater benefit from these experiences than other individuals.…”

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Flow at Work and Basic Psychological Needs: Effects on Well-Being

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Recent conceptual work draws meaningful distinctions between experiential and declarative well-being (Shmotkin, 2005), but little has been done to apply such distinctions in organisational psychology. We use this framework to integrate self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985) and flow theory , leading to hypotheses proposing that flow experiences at work (experiential well-being) lead to declarative well-being outcomes through their influence on the satisfaction of basic psychological needs for competence and autonomy. Findings from a two-week experience sampling study of full-time employees offer support for our hypotheses. This study also shows support for the moderating effect of individual differences in personality on the relationships among flow experiences, need fulfillment, and declarative well-being.

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“…Previous work has also demonstrated that implicit motives as measured by the OMT were able to successfully predict behavior (cf. Baumann & Scheffer, 2011;Kuhl, 2001). For example, the OMT affiliation motive was associated with early interpersonal binding and moderated cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in high school students (Wegner, Schüler, & Budde, 2014).…”

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Enjoying influence on others: Congruently high implicit and explicit power motives are related to teachers’ well-being

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The present study examined the associations of implicit and explicit power motives with the well-being of teachers. Teachers (N = 170) participated in an online assessment, which included measures for implicit motives (assessed by the operant motive test), explicit motives, and well-being. We expected congruently high power motives to be linked with the highest levels of well-being. We tested this assumption using polynomial regressions with response surface analysis. Results were consistent with our hypothesis. Additionally, there was an effect of directional motive incongruence (a combination of a low implicit and a high explicit power motive was associated with higher well-being than a high implicit/low explicit combination), which did not hold when controlling for emotional stability. Results for achievement were comparable, but weaker, and there was no effect for motive incongruence. No significant associations were found for motive (in)congruence in the affiliation domain. Our findings underline the importance of the power motive in understanding individual differences in teachers' well-being. The present study examined the associations of implicit and explicit power motives with the

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Seeking flow in the achievement domain: The achievement flow motive behind flow experience

Cited by 60 publications

References 49 publications

Becoming who you are: An integrative review of self‐determination theory and personality systems interactions theory

Becoming who you are: An integrative review of self‐determination theory and personality systems interactions theory

Flow at Work and Basic Psychological Needs: Effects on Well-Being

Enjoying influence on others: Congruently high implicit and explicit power motives are related to teachers’ well-being

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