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Putting eudaimonia in its place: On the predictor, not the outcome, side of the equation
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Sheldon K. M.
A critique of the concept of eudaimonia
Keywords: eudaimonia
Publication based on the results of:
Subasi M., Osin E., Психологические исследования: электронный научный журнал 2024 Vol. 17 No. 89 Article 2
Individual motives significantly influence the pursuit of well-being and its outcomes. Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities-Revised (HEMA-R) Scale measures eudaimonic, hedonic, hedonic pleasure, and hedonic comfort motives. Hedonic motives include the pursuit of pleasure, enjoyment, fun, relaxation, and comfort. Hedonic pleasure motives refer to the pursuit of enjoyment and fun. Hedonic comfort motives relate ...
Added: November 6, 2024
Subasi M., Huta V., Osin E., TURKISH PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE JOURNAL 2025 Vol. 15 No. 77 P. 376–392
The Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities-Revised (HEMA-R) measures eudaimonic, hedonic, hedonic pleasure, and hedonic comfort motivations. Eudaimonic motivation refers to the pursuit of valued goals and developing personal excellence. Hedonic pleasure motivation included pursuing enjoyment, and hedonic comfort motivation relates to comfort-seeking and pain avoidance. Hedonic motivation combines pleasure and comfort elements under a ...
Added: October 31, 2024
Skrzypiec G., Wyra M., Topcu‑Uzer C. et al., School Mental Health 2024 Vol. 16 P. 1120–1140
As the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus spread across the world, countries took drastic measures to counter the disease by requiring their citizens to home self-isolate i.e., lockdown. While it was not known how young people would cope with the social distancing restrictions, there was concern that the lockdown would have a debilitating efect on youth mental ...
Added: July 11, 2024
Osin E. N., Voevodina E., Kostenko V., Frontiers in Psychology 2023 Vol. 14 Article 958721
Eudaimonia, in contrast to hedonia, is theorized to be a more complex type of positive functioning that involves personal growth and is guided by the pursuit of meaning. However, the existing evidence linking eudaimonia to personality development is rather scarce. To fill this gap, we aimed to explore whether ego development is related to eudaimonic ...
Added: March 18, 2023
Sheldon K. M., Corcoran M., Trent J., The Journal of Positive Psychology 2021 Vol. 16 No. 4 P. 551–560
In two studies we tested the hypothesis that observers can accurately distinguish between convicted criminals and matched controls, merely by scrutinizing facial photographs. Based on the Eudaimonic Activity Model, we further hypothesized that criminals and non-criminals differ in their apparent emotional positivity. Finally, based on honest signaling theory, we hypothesized that such emotionality differences can ...
Added: December 10, 2021
Sheldon K. M., Corcoran M., Sheldon M., Perspectives on Psychological Science 2021 Vol. 16 No. 3 P. 654–666
Chronic positive mood (CPM) has been shown to confer a wide variety of social, functional, and health benefits. Some researchers have argued that humans evolved to feel CPM, which explains why most people report better than neutral mood (the “positivity offset bias”) and why particularly happy people have particularly good outcomes. Here, we argue that ...
Added: December 10, 2021
Osin E.N., Voevodina E. Y., Kostenko V. Yu., / Series WP BRP 34/EDU/2016 "Higher School of Economics Research Paper". 2021. No. WP BRP 125/PSY/2021.
Eudaimonia is theorized to be a more complex type of positive functioning than hedonia, associated
with personality development and maturity. In this study, we aimed to find out whether ego
development (ED), proposed as a measure of psychosocial maturity, is related to eudaimonic wellbeing and whether trait indicators of eudaimonic functioning can explain this association. Adult
participants from ...
Added: October 13, 2021
Sheldon K. M., Corcoran M., Trent J., The Journal of Positive Psychology 2020
In two studies we tested the hypothesis that observers can accurately distinguish between convicted criminals and matched controls, merely by scrutinizing facial photographs. Based on the Eudaimonic Activity Model, we further hypothesized that criminals and non-criminals differ in their apparent emotional positivity. Finally, based on honest signaling theory, we hypothesized that such emotionality differences can ...
Added: October 28, 2020
Leontiev D., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 № 1 С. 14–37
The article provides an analytical overview of intersecting constructs describing maximally positive emotional experience of the supreme good, namely happiness, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, quality of life, hedonia, and eudaimonia. The paper considers the relationships between the constructs and their operationalization in empirical research. To distinguish close constructs the authors highlights the quality of motivation ...
Added: September 5, 2020
Martela F., Sheldon K. M., Review of General Psychology 2019 Vol. 23 No. 4 P. 458–474
Interest in the experience of well-being, as both a research topic and as a policy goal, has significantly increased in recent
decades. Although subjective well-being (SWB)—composed of positive affect, low negative affect, and life satisfaction—is
the most commonly used measure of well-being, many experts have argued that another important dimension of wellbeing, often referred to as eudaimonic ...
Added: December 10, 2019
Sheldon K. M., Corcoran M., Prentice M., Journal of Happiness Studies 2019 Vol. 20 No. 3 P. 919–933
We used a new methodology for assessing change motivation (Hudson and Fraley 2015, 2016) to test the hypothesis that striving to improve one’s hedonic well-being
fails in its aim, whereas striving to improve one’s eudaimonic functioning succeeds. In
three studies, participant goals to increase subjective well-being (SWB) were negatively
correlated with concurrent SWB, whereas goals to increase relative ...
Added: June 15, 2019
Springer, 2016.
This handbook presents the most comprehensive account of eudaimonic well-being to date. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical updates presented by leading scholars and young researchers. The handbook examines philosophical and historical approaches to the study of happy lives and good societies, and it critically looks at conceptual controversies related to eudaimonia and well-being. ...
Added: December 27, 2017
Sheldon K. M., , in: The Social Psychology of Living Well (Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology).: Routledge, 2018. P. 116–136.
Expanding on the observations of other well-being researchers in recent years, this chapter criticizes psychology’s current use of the term “eudaimonia,” and in particular, the terms “eudaimonic well-being” and “eudaimonic happiness.” I suggest that psychologists have made a serious category mistake in linking the concepts of “eudaimonia” and “well-being,” a mistake that Aristotle himself took ...
Added: December 27, 2017
Shumskiy V., Osin E. N., Ukolova E., Existenzanalyse 2017 Vol. 34 No. 2 P. 123–138
We present a series of studies aimed at the development and the validation of a new Russian-language instrument measuring existential fulfilment based on the hierarchical structure of the 4 existential fundamental motivations developed by A. Längle. Based on phenomenological descriptions and focus groups, we created a 94-item set. The structural validation study used 2 online ...
Added: October 18, 2017