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Eudaimonia and Its Distinction from Hedonia: Developing a Classification and Terminology for Understanding Conceptual and Operational Definitions
Huta, Veronika; Waterman, Alan - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 6, pp. 1425-1456
Interest in eudaimonia (e.g., growth, meaning, authenticity, excellence) and its distinction from hedonia (e … operationalizations can be quite discrepant; definitions of eudaimonia and hedonia sometimes fall into different categories of analysis (e ….g. when eudaimonia is described as a way of functioning, hedonia as an experience); and the terms eudaimonia and hedonia are …
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Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives
Huta, Veronika; Ryan, Richard - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 11 (2010) 6, pp. 735-762
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Spirituality and Subjective Well-Being: Evidences for a New Domain in the Personal Well-Being Index
Wills, Eduardo - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (2009) 1, pp. 49-69
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Happiness Revisited: Ontological Well-Being as a Theory-Based Construct of Subjective Well-Being
Şimşek, Ömer - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 10 (2009) 5, pp. 505-522
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Pleasure: An Initial Exploration
Biswas-Diener, Robert; Linley, P.; Dovey, Helen; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 16 (2015) 2, pp. 313-332
Pleasure has long been implicated as an important aspect of happiness. Unfortunately, the study of pleasure in the science of happiness has largely been relegated to positive affective states. While pleasure and affect are difficult to disentangle there is, we argue, utility in examining...
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Linking Peoples’ Pursuit of Eudaimonia and Hedonia with Characteristics of their Parents: Parenting Styles, Verbally Endorsed Values, and Role Modeling
Huta, Veronika - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 1, pp. 47-61
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Happiness is not Well-Being
Raibley, Jason - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 6, pp. 1105-1129
This paper attempts to explain the conceptual connections between happiness and well-being. It first distinguishes episodic happiness from happiness in the personal attribute sense. It then evaluates two recent proposals about the connection between happiness and well-being: (1) the idea that...
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Evidence of Associations Between Lay Conceptions of Well-Being, Conception-Congruent Behavior, and Experienced Well-Being
McMahan, Ethan; Dixon, Kevin; King, Lindsey - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 14 (2013) 2, pp. 655-671
Individuals’ lay conceptions of well-being have been found to be associated with several indexes of positive psychological functioning, yet little is known about the mechanisms underlying these associations. In two studies, the current research examined whether conception-congruent behavior...
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Association Between Adolescent Eudaimonic Behaviours and Emotional Competence in Young Adulthood
Hallam, W.; Olsson, C.; M. O’Connor; Hawkins, M.; … - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 15 (2014) 5, pp. 1165-1177
The role of Aristotelian eudaimonic (moral) values in healthy psychosocial development is a rapidly growing area of enquiry that crosses the disciplines of philosophy and developmental psychology. The purpose of this study was to examine prospective relationships between adolescence eudaimonic...
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Age-Related Differences in Lay Conceptions of Well-Being and Experienced Well-Being
McMahan, Ethan; Estes, David - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 1, pp. 79-101
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