Autotelic

//ˈɔːtəˌtɛlɪk//

Synonyms for "autotelic" (2 found)

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23 translations across 6 languages.

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Esperanto

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  • aŭtotela adj (containing its own meaning or purpose)

Finnish

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  • autotelinen adj (containing its own meaning or purpose)
  • autotelinen adj (deriving meaning and purpose from within)
  • autotelinen adj (not motivated by anything beyond itself)

French

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  • autotélique adj (containing its own meaning or purpose)
  • autotélique adj (deriving meaning and purpose from within)
  • autotélique adj (not motivated by anything beyond itself)
  • personne autotélique noun (autotelic person)

Italian

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  • autotelica adj (containing its own meaning or purpose)
  • autotelica adj (deriving meaning and purpose from within)
  • autotelica adj (not motivated by anything beyond itself)
  • autoteliche adj (containing its own meaning or purpose)

Polish

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  • autoteliczny adj (containing its own meaning or purpose)
  • autoteliczny adj (deriving meaning and purpose from within)

Spanish

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  • autotélico adj (containing its own meaning or purpose)

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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.

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Chess itself, however – the playing of the game – is most frequently engaged in, as we say, for its own sake, as an autotelic activity rather than as a teleological one. The majority of utterances of a language are teleological, aiming at informing […]

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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.

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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.

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