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tHE aUTOTELIC PERSONALITY:

WHAT MOTIVATES THE AUTOTELIC PERSONALITY?

Student ID: U317551

Name: Chloe Hulse

Unit: Motivation and Emotion 7124

Problem

Students and workers can find it hard to concentrate and can lack the motivation to complete a task, which reduces performance and completion.

What is the Autotelic personality?

what

  • Autoelic individuals are those who do things for their own sake, rather than to achieve some later goal (Baumann, 2012)

characteristics of the autotelic personality

Characteristics

  • Pure curiosity and the need to achieve
  • Enjoyment and persistance
  • openness to novelty and narrow concentration
  • Integration and differentiation
  • Independence and cooperation (Baumann, 2012)

motivation

Motivation

Intrinsic motivation

  • Study by Mills & Fullagar (2008) found that students who were intrinsically motivated were more likely to be absorbed in their studies.

Intrinsic motivation

Degree of Challenge

  • For an autotelic individual to be actively engaged in a task, there must be a balance between challenge and skill ability (Baumann, 2012)

degree of challenge

psychological theory

Theory

Flow theory

  • Csikszentmihayali described flow as a state of intrinsic motivation where a person is fully immersed in what he/she is doing for the sake of the activity (Baumann, 2012)

flow theory

Self-determination theory

Self-determination theory

1. Autonomy

2. Competence

3. Relatedness

(Stavrou,2008)

applications

Practical applications

Education

education

  • Study by Ishimura and Kodama (2009)

  • Help improve time management, performance and goal direction in students

Occupation

occupation

  • Csikszentmihalyi notes that flow is more often found in work behaviour than in leisure activities as there is an achievement flow motive in a work context (Baumann, 2011)

  • Ensure optimal performance in occupational settings.

References

References

Baumann, N. (2012). Chapter 9: Autotelic personality. Retrieved from https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb1/prof/PSY/PGA/bilder/Baumann_Flow_Chapter_9_final.pdf

Baumann, N.,& Scheffer, D. (2011). Seeking flow in the achievement domain: The achievement flow motive behind flow experience. Motivation and Emotion, 35(3), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-010-9195-4

Ishimura, I., & Kodama, M. (2009). Flow experiences in everyday activities of Japanese college students: Autotelic people and time management 1. Japanese Psychological Research, 51, 47–54.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5884.2009.00387

Kowal, J., & Fortier, M. (1999). Motivational determinants of flow: Contributions from self-determination theory. The Journal of Social Psychology, 139(3), 355–368. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224549909598391

Lachmann-Anke, P.U. (2012). Tired man working at desk [digital image]. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Work-1015501_1280.jpg

Mills, M., & Fullagar, C. (2008). Motivation and flow: Toward an understanding of the dynamics of the relation in architecture students. The Journal of Psychology, 142(5), 533-556. https://doi.org/10.3200/JRLP.142.5.533-556

Stavrou (2008). Intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and amotivation: Examining self-determination theory from flow theory perspective. New developments in the psychology of motivation, 1-24.

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