different between autotelic vs autotelism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (autós, “self”) +? ????? (télos, “result; end”); compare auto- and telic. From early 20th century.

Adjective

autotelic (comparative more autotelic, superlative most autotelic)

1. (psychology, of an activity, process, person or personality) Containing its own meaning or purpose; deriving meaning and purpose from within.
   • 1988, Antonella Della Fave, Fausto Massimini, 12: Modernization and the changing contexts in work and leisure, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (editors), Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness, Cambridge University Press, 1992, Paperback, page 208,

     It is possible that these three people have jobs that are more autotelic than those of the rest of this group; that they have more responsibility, more initiative and challenge at their workplace than is usual for employees of their type.

   • 2012, J.F. Rosenberg, Linguistic Representation, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 6

   • 2015, Beata Tel??ka, A Selective Study on Subjective Attitudes and Objective Achievement of Autotelic and Non-autotelic Students of English as a Foreign Language, Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel, Magdalena Szyszka (editors), The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner: Selected Issues, Springer, page 66,

     Non-autotelics' intrinsic motivation tends to increase if they devote time and give concentration, attention and energy to EFL tasks; some non-autotelic students become more autotelic if they perceive the activities interesting and important for their future goals; if some of the non-autotelics devote some time and focus their attention on an activity, that activity becomes more autotelic.

2. Of or pertaining to the quality of (a thing's) being autotelic.
   • 1988, Kevin Rathunde, Optimal experience and the family context, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi (editors), Optimal Experience: Psychological Studies of Flow in Consciousness, 1992, Paperback, Cambridge University Press, page 251,

     The autotelic score was negatively correlated with the anxiety/ambiguity score r = ?.57 and negatively correlated with the boredom/rigidity score r = ?.36.

3. (art, of a work of art or literature) Not motivated by anything beyond itself; thematically self-contained.
   • 1989, Michael Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-century, Cambridge University Press (1991), ?ISBN, page 112:

Antonyms

• (containing its own meaning or purpose): non-autotelic, nonautotelic

Related terms

• autotelism
• heterotelic
• telic

Translations

Noun

autotelic (plural autotelics)

1. An autotelic person, a person with an autotelic personality.
   • 2014, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Springer, page 254,

     Measuring autotelic personality similarly with young adults, Hektner (1996) confirmed that autotelics were least happy and motivated in apathy (low-challenge, low-skill) situations, whereas nonautotelics (those least motivated in high-challenge, high-skill situations) did not find the apathy condition aversive.

   • 2015, Beata Tel??ka, A Selective Study on Subjective Attitudes and Objective Achievement of Autotelic and Non-autotelic Students of English as a Foreign Language, Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel, Magdalena Szyszka (editors), The Ecosystem of the Foreign Language Learner: Selected Issues, Springer, page 66,

     First of all, it can be inferred that both autotelics and non-autotelics designated the following English activities when their concentration, interest and attention were the highest: communicating in English, also with native speakers, watching English films and programmes, reading authentic materials, sight-seeing, listening to music and translating lyrics.

Antonyms

• (autotelic person): non-autotelic, nonautotelic

Translations

See also

• self-motivated

Further reading

• Flow (psychology)#The autotelic personality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dictionary.com
• Merriam-Webster.com

Romanian

Etymology

From French autotélique.

Adjective

autotelic m or n (feminine singular autotelic?, masculine plural autotelici, feminine and neuter plural autotelice)

1. autotelic

Declension

English

Noun

autotelism (uncountable)

1. The belief that an entity or event has within itself its own meaning or purpose.
2. (art) In literature or art, the belief that a work, having been created, is a justification in and of itself. Poems with a unified rhetorical device to frame the poem in a singular idea.

Related terms

• autotelic

References

• Dictionary.com
• Merriam-Webster.com