![]() ![]() Questionnaire surveys on Italian and Greek residents focused on their perceived flow and place identity in relation to their own specific local place experiences. The study is also based on flow theory, according to which some salient features of an activity experience are important for happiness and well-being. This study focuses on place identity, the identity’s features relating to a person’s relation with her/his place. This study examined the relationship between flow experience and place identity, based on eudaimonistic identity theory (EIT) which prioritizes self-defining activities as important for an individual’s identification of his/her goals, values, beliefs, and interests corresponding to one’s own identity development or enhancement. 6Università per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy. ![]() 5Department of Early Childhood Education, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.4Department of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA.3School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.2Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca in Psicologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy.1Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy.Marino Bonaiuto 1,2*, Yanhui Mao 3*, Scott Roberts 4, Anastasia Psalti 5, Silvia Ariccio 1, Uberta Ganucci Cancellieri 6 and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 4 ![]()
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