ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
A Scoping Review of Flow Research.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Relationship Between Personality and Flow: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of personality · 2026Pooled it
- Virtual Reality Relaxation for Reducing Aggression and Emotional Distress in At-Risk Adolescents in Israeli Residential Care: A Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial.Aggressive behavior · 2026Trial
- When Challenge Turns into Threat at the Chessboard: Cardiovascular Reactivity and Flow Across Two Hours of Task Performance.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Article
- Positive psychology 4.0: a science of consequence for a world that can no longer wait.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Modelling the Balance Axiom in Flow Theory: A Physiological and Computational Approach in STEAM Education.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of the Practice of Playing Video Games on Technical Skills Development in Preclinical Dental Education: Preliminary Cross-Sectional Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Observational
- Mindfulness as a key mechanism: linking flow and emotional intelligence to academic engagement in Chinese university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Characteristics of digital twins to visualize, monitor and predict outcomes on participation in meaningful activities.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The flow experience: Polish adaptation and validation of the psychological flow scale (PFS).PloS one · 2025Article
- The social experience of uncertainty: a qualitative analysis of emergency department care for suspected pneumonia for the design of decision support.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2024Article
- A framework for neurophysiological experiments on flow states.Communications psychology · 2024Review
- Alignment of Consumers' Expected Brain Benefits from Food and Supplements with Measurable Cognitive Performance Tests.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Exploring the Neural Correlates of Flow Experience with Multifaceted Tasks and a Single-Channel Prefrontal EEG Recording.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Recreational cycling provides greater satisfaction and flow in an immersive virtual environment than in real life.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- The influence of leader-subordinate emotional intelligence congruence on the flow experience: evidence from the liquor manufacturing industry.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The effect of music tempo on movement flow.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Coloring complex shapes decreases patient anxiety in three care environments: a pilot study with color analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Identification of Language-Induced Mental Load from Eye Behaviors in Virtual Reality.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Fostering flow experiences at work: a framework and research agenda for developing flow interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The Role of a Restorative Resource in the Academic Context in Improving Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation and Flow within the Job Demands-Resources Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
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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