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Flow in positive psychology, also known colloquially as being in the zone or locked in, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does ...
The Four cornerstone model was developed by Ayman Sawaf and Robert Cooper in 1997. [5] [7] Multiple studies and research carried out in regards to emotional intelligence based on this model revealed a marginal qualitative difference between the public and private sector executives and expand on the usage of this model. [7]
The Oxford English Dictionary describes callisthenics as "gymnastic exercises to achieve fitness and grace of movement". [2] The word calisthenics comes from the ancient Greek words κάλλος (kállos), which means "beauty", and σθένος (sthenos), meaning "strength". [2] It is the art of using one's body weight as resistance to develop ...
A series of images that represent research (left) and practice (right) in the field of academic kinesiology. Kinesiology (from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis) 'movement' and -λογία -logía 'study of') is the scientific study of human body movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, anatomical, biomechanical, pathological ...
In light of the above-mentioned facts, this research proposes a novel model and integrates flow theory into the theory of technology acceptance model (TAM), based on stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, the SOR model has been widely used in previous studies of online customer behavior, and the model theory includes three components ...
Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi was born on 29 September 1934 in Fiume,[4]now known as Rijeka,[5]then part of the Kingdom of Italy. His family name derives from the village of Csíkszentmihályin Transylvania.[6] He was the third son of a career diplomat at the Hungarian Consulate in Fiume. [5][7]In 1944, when Csikszentmihalyi was ten years old ...
Sports science. Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally incorporates areas of physiology (exercise physiology), psychology (sport psychology ...
Fitness landscape. In evolutionary biology, fitness landscapes or adaptive landscapes (types of evolutionary landscapes) are used to visualize the relationship between genotypes and reproductive success. It is assumed that every genotype has a well-defined replication rate (often referred to as fitness). This fitness is the "height" of the ...