Ritwik Swaraj Tripathi

“Being in that zone” has often been associated with elite sports or performances, but is it for other activities too that make the doer get immersed in the action without the worry of the fruit, was the question that led this study as well is it bringing happiness if it is studied on doers that are not related to elite activities only, like young writers specifically. Was the subjective reference of time taking a backseat even when the task was not just any elite performance and was it enough to transcend the doer into the Psychological Flow. Was it possible that holding a pen and writing down abstracts made them feel happy if Psychological Flow was taking over. There were numerous questions that laid the foundation of this research as we conducted this study on 100 young writers from different linguistic, cultural backgrounds from different parts of India and abroad. Our results indicate that among young writers (20-30 years old), Psychological Flow is significantly correlated to Happiness at (r=0.354, p