PSY 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Autotelic, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Motivation
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To have freedom, choice, control over decisions affecting self, a life expressing personal desires/preferences. To feel self-determination: decisions about what to do driven by personal interests. To not feel that outside forces pressure us to think, feel, behave a certain way. To have a subjective experience of autonomy. Volition: how free versus coerced you feel. Perceived choice: feeling one has the opportunity to choose, rather than having duties/obligations to act in a prescribed way. Perceived locus of causality: feeling one"s behavior stems from personal/internal (not environmental or external) causes. Environments (e. g. , jobs, relationships) do differ in how much they support this need. Cultural contexts too (individualism-collectivism, or tight vs. loose enforcement of social norms) Most importantly: controlling motivational styles (impose agenda, extrinsic motivators, criticism) lead to. Less positive emotion, learning, creativity, perceived competence, intrinsic and mastery motivation, behavior change, and to worse performance. To be effective at interacting with surroundings. To exercise and develop and improve one"s skills, capacities, talents.
