Print Email Facebook Twitter Flow and Flourishing During the Pandemic Title Flow and Flourishing During the Pandemic: The Roles of Strengths Use and Playful Design Author Liu, Wei (TU Delft Design Aesthetics) Zhang, Wen (Beijing Normal University) van der Linden, Dimitri (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Bakker, Arnold B. (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; University of Johannesburg) Date 2023 Abstract Ruminative thoughts induced by the COVID-19 pandemic have an adverse impact on individual well-being. However, little is known about how to alleviate such a negative effect – let alone how a person can flourish during crises. The current study uses the self-determination model of flow to propose that two proactive behaviors, strength use and playful design, are positively related to the flow experience, which, in turn, is positively related to daily flourishing. Moreover, we propose that the effects of proactive behaviors on flow are stronger when individuals ruminate more about COVID-19 pandemic. Using a day reconstruction method, we collected data from university students across five consecutive days (N-person = 135, N-day = 665, N-activity = 2985). Multilevel results showed that strengths use and playful design were positively related to flow experience. In turn, flow experience was positively related to daily flourishing. Moreover, we found that COVID-19 rumination moderated the associations between proactive behaviors and flow, such that strengths use and playful design were more effective to foster flow when individuals had a higher (vs. lower) level of rumination. The results imply that in order to function well and flourish during a crisis, individuals could make use of their strengths or playfully design the activities in their daily lives. In a broader sense, we provide concrete behavioral strategies to cope with the downsides of negative events. Subject COVID-19 ruminationFlourishingFlowPlayful designStrengths use To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5581e477-3193-4fca-b16a-b109ae88f1f5 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-023-00670-2 Embargo date 2024-01-19 ISSN 1389-4978 Source Journal of Happiness Studies, 24 (7), 2153-2175 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 Wei Liu, Wen Zhang, Dimitri van der Linden, Arnold B. Bakker Files PDF s10902_023_00670_2.pdf 1.37 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5581e477-3193-4fca-b16a-b109ae88f1f5/datastream/OBJ/view