Eudaimonic is something that pursues meaning to achieve happiness long term.Hedonistic vs Eudaimonic Happiness People spend much of their lives trying to find happiness and fulfillment. Happiness is a subjective concept, so it is often more useful to use the term well-being. What makes someone...
This paper explores the relationship between a single-item scale on satisfaction with meaning in life (SML) and other well-being metrics, both eudaimonic and hedonic. A sample of N =923 Spanish adolescents in secondary education was used for this purpose. Although we have theorized and ...
Two aspects of SWB are hedonic well-being (HWB) and eudaimonic well-being (EWB). HWB emphasizes pleasure and positive affect, whereas EWB involves meaning, purpose, and virtue. The majority of empirical leisure and sports studies, however, have focused on HWB, underexploring leisure’s and ...
To understand the role of personality in the relationship between hedonic motives (e.g., pleasure), eudaimonic motives (e.g., excellence/meaning), and subjective well-being, we sampled 218 university students who completed an online questionnaire and a week of experience sampling surveys. Besides...
All of these folks touch on the two types of well being: hedonic and eudaimonic. FromSalon Researchers have described this shift in style as a move from the hedonic to what's called the eudaimonic, a Greek concept referring to a meaningful experience or a feeling of well-being. ...
Psychologists conceive of happiness in two different ways: hedonic happiness, or pleasure and enjoyment, and eudaimonic happiness, or meaning and purpose. Some psychologists champion either a hedonic or an eudaimonic idea of happiness. Most agree, however, that people require both hedonia and eudai...
Job-related well-being is the contribution of the job to well-being through enjoyment of the job by the individual (hedonic job-related well-being) and fulfillment of the purposes of the job for the individual (eudaimonic job-related well-being). Although it is an individual attitude, ...
This was tested by having participants (N = 107) complete the OTHscale and the Satisfaction with Life scale, prior to completing an online diary reportingactual instances of hedonic and eudaimonic behaviour. Although meaning predicted eu-daimonic behaviour, the pleasure orientation was unrelated to...
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Current research on well-being has been derived from two general perspectives: the hedonic approach, which focuses on happiness and defines well-being in terms of pleasure attainment and pain avoidance; and the eudaimonic approach, which focuses on meaning and self-realization and defines well-...