Showing papers by "Reed W. Larson published in 1984"
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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The external landscape: What the teenagers world looks like * The internal landscape: what the teen teenagers world feels like * Peaks and valleys: Variability in daily experience Interactions * Familiar Aggravations: Relations with parents and siblings * The Companionship of friends * The Self in Solitude: Perils and Possibilities * Coping with Classes Transformations * Conflict and Chaos in Daily Life * Converting Challenges to Enjoyment: The Flow Experience * The Growth of Complexity: Shaping Meaningful Lives
Abstract: Perspectives * Paths to Adulthood * The Age of Choice: Opportunities and Obstacles in Adolescence * Charting Adolescent Life Environments * The External Landscape: What the Teenagers World Looks Like * The Internal Landscape: What the Teenagers World Feels Like * Peaks and Valleys: Variability in Daily Experience Interactions * Familiar Aggravations: Relations with Parents and Siblings * The Companionship of Friends * The Self in Solitude: Perils and Possibilities * Coping with Classes Transformations * Conflict and Chaos in Daily Life * Converting Challenges to Enjoyment: The Flow Experience * The Growth of Complexity: Shaping Meaningful Lives
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) to monitor the ongoing experience of 75 adolescents and compared three sport contexts: organized sport, informal sport, and physical education class.
Abstract: The premise of this paper is that an important component of the value of sport is the experience it provides: the moods, feelings, and self-perceptions that occur in sports contexts. The Experience Sampling Method (ESM) was used to monitor the ongoing experience of 75 adolescents. Sport was compared with other activities in terms of concentration, mood, self-consciousness and sense of skill, challenge and control. Three different sport contexts were distinguished and compared—organized sport, informal sport, and physical education class. These three contexts were contrasted, and results interpreted in terms of the “flow model” of enjoyment and optimal experience (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975). Sport was experienced as substantially more positive than the rest of everyday life. Sense of control was highest in gym class and lowest in informal sport; sense of skill was highest in informal sport and lowest in gym class; and significantly more was perceived to be at stake in organized sport than in informal...
86 citations
TL;DR: High school students filled out reports on their experiences at random times during their daily lives, including 48 occasions when they were using alcohol or marijuana, and alcohol use was reported primarily in the context of Friday and Saturday night social gatherings and was associated with a happy and gregarious subjective state.
Abstract: High school students filled out reports on their experiences at random times during their daily lives, including 48 occasions when they were using alcohol or marijuana. Alcohol use was reported primarily in the context of Friday and Saturday night social gatherings and was associated with a happy and gregarious subjective state. Marijuana use was reported across a wider range of situations and was associated with an average state that differed much less from ordinary experience.
59 citations
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that high school students filled out reports on their experiences at random times during their daily lives, including 48 occasions when they were using alcohol or marijuana, and associated with a happy and gregarious subjective state.
Abstract: High school students filled out reports on their experiences at random times during their daily lives, including 48 occasions when they were using alcohol or marijuana. Alcohol use was reported primarily in the context of Friday and Saturday night social gatherings and was associated with a happy and gregarious subjective state. Marijuana use was reported across a wider range of situations and was associated with an average state that differed much less from ordinary experience.