Being good by doing good: Daily eudaimonic activity and well-being

By M. Steger, T. Kashdan, S. Oishi. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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The Experience of Meaning in Life (2013, background): “Fortunately, in the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in meaning in life as a subject of psychological inquiry (e.g., Lambert et al. 2010; Steger et al. 2008; Schlegel et al. 2009; Vess et al. 2009).”
Natural capital, subjective well-being, and the new welfare economics of sustainability: Some evidence from cross-country regressions (2009, background): “It is common in the psychological and happiness literatures to distinguish between two major types: (1) Subjective well-being associated with often short-lived pleasant emotions, or feeling good (‘hedonic wellbeing’, ‘affective well-being’, or ‘happiness’ for short), and (2) contentment derived from”
Positive Empathy and Prosocial Behavior: A Neglected Link (2016, unknown): “, & Strayer, J. (1996). Empathy, emotional expressiveness, and prosocial behavior. Child Development, 67(2), 449–470. doi:10.1111/j.1467–8624.1996.tb01745.x Rozin, P., & Royzman, E. B. (2001). Negativitiy bias, negativity dominance, and contagion.”
Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives (2010, background): “Other authors have similarly linked meaning with eudaimonia-like concepts (e.g., King and Napa 1998; McGregor and Little 1998; Ryan and Deci 2001; Ryff and Singer 1998; Seligman 2002; Steger et al. 2008).”
Eudaimonic conceptions of well-being, meaning in life, and self-reported well-being: Initial test of a mediational model (2011, background): “As stated previously, research indicates that several factors related to a eudaimonic approach to well-being are positively associated with meaning in life (e.g., Baumeister & Vohs, 2002; Ebersole & DeVogler, 1981; Emmons, 2003; Reker & Wong, 1988; Steger et al., 2008a).”
Childlessness and Psychological Well-Being in Midlife and Old Age: An Examination of Parental Status Effects Across a Range of Outcomes (2009, background): “While eudaimonic well-being research excludes hedonic dimensions as outcome variables, some researchers have used life satisfaction and self-esteem to a certain extent (Ryan & Deci, 2001; Steger et al., 2008).”
Linking Peoples’ Pursuit of Eudaimonia and Hedonia with Characteristics of their Parents: Parenting Styles, Verbally Endorsed Values, and Role Modeling (2012, background): “Thus far, there is agreement that eudaimonia relates more to a sense of meaning, elevation and inspiration, personal expressiveness, interest, and variables characterizing flow experience; hedonia relates more to feeling carefree, and also to high positive affect and low negative affect (Huta and Ry”
Eudaimonic Identity Theory: Identity as Self-Discovery (2011, background): “Steger, Kashdan, and Oishi (2007) found that eudaimonically motivated behaviors were more consistently related to global life satisfaction and positive affect than were hedonically motivated behaviors.”
Reconsidering happiness: a eudaimonist's perspective (2008, methodology): “@The many, the most vulgar, seemingly conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification.”