When Effort Is Enjoyed: Two Studies of Intrinsic Motivation for Personally Salient Activities

By A. Waterman. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Breaking Them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers’ Authentic Self-expression (2013, methodology): “To measure authentic self-expression, we used a six-item scale from Waterman’s Eudaimonic Well-being Questionnaire Scale (see Waterman, 1993, 2005).”
Theoretical Perspectives Guiding QOL Indicator Projects (2011, background): “A more recent theory of flow and engagement has gained the attention of QOL researchers is eudaimonistic identity theory (Waterman 2005; Waterman et al. 2008).”
The Implications of Two Conceptions of Happiness (Hedonic Enjoyment and Eudaimonia) for the Understanding of Intrinsic Motivation (2008, background): “…developing competence (Deci and Ryan, 1985), (c) self-realization values (Waterman, 1990), referring to perceptions that an activity advances the development of personal potentials and the attainment of personally salient goals, and (d) the level of effort invested in activities (Waterman, 2005).”
Eudaimonic conceptions of well-being, meaning in life, and self-reported well-being: Initial test of a mediational model (2011, background): “…on intrinsic versus extrinsic goals (Kasser & Ryan, 1996), orientations to happiness (Peterson et al., 2005), personally-expressive activities (Waterman, 2005; Waterman, Schwartz, & Conti, 2008), and daily eudaimonic behavior (Steger et al., 2008a), support the notion that eudaimonic…”
“Work is my passion”: The different affective, behavioural, and cognitive consequences of harmonious and obsessive passion toward work (2011, background): “, Hatfi eld & Walster, 1978) or are focused on concepts akin to passion such as personal interests (Krapp, 2002), commitment and over commitment (Dubé, Kairouz, & Jodoin, 1997), serious play (Rathunde, 1993), or personally salient activities (Waterman, 2005).”
How feeling happy during off-job activities helps successful recovery from work: A day reconstruction study (2014, background): “Also, participation in high-effort activities that are enjoyed may lead to more rewards in terms of social, physical or physiological resources as compared to low-effort activities that are enjoyed (Waterman, 2005), which may result in higher recovery levels.”
What Moves Us? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reasons for Traveling (2015, background): “…have been identified: (1) activities that include hedonic but also eudaimonic motivations (i.e. higher pleasures); (2) activities that are induced only by hedonic pursuits (i.e. lower pleasures); and (3) activities that are not motivated by hedonic or eudaimonic pursuits (Waterman, 2005).”
Passion at work and burnout: A two-study test of the mediating role of flow experiences (2012, background): “The one-dimensional limitation is also found with conceptualization such as personally salient activities (Schwartz & Waterman, 2006; Waterman, 2005) and personal interest (Krapp, 2002; Krapp, Hidi, & Renninger, 1992) among others.”
When Is Identity Congruent with the Self? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective (2011, background): “Personal expressiveness has indeed been found to relate to adaptive outcomes and processes such as intrinsic motivation, flow, self-actualization, and vitality (e.g., Waterman, 1993, 2005 ).”
Integrating the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives to more comprehensively understand wellbeing and pathways to wellbeing (2012, background): “…intrinsically motivated activities from others were also included: self-determination (Ryan, 1992), the balance of challenges and skills (Csikszentmihalyi, 1988), self-realisation values (Waterman, 1990), and the level of effort invested in the performance of the activity (Waterman, 2005).”
Hedonic Versus Eudaimonic Conceptions of Well-being: Evidence of Differential Associations With Self-reported Well-being (2011, background): “…versus extrinsic goals (Kasser and Ryan 1993, 1996), the self-concordance of goals (Sheldon and Elliot 1999), personally-expressive activities (Waterman 2005; Waterman et al. 2008), and psychological well-being (Ryff 1989; Ryff and Singer 1998), have found that behaviors and cognition…”
Socio-Demographic Variables, General Psychological Well-Being and the Mental Health Continuum in an African Context (2012, unknown): “Kashdan et al. 2008; Waterman 2005, 2008; Waterman et al. 2006).”
Eudaimonic Identity Theory: Identity as Self-Discovery (2011, background): “I ( Waterman, 2005 ) added effort as an element in the understanding of intrinsic motivation, given that individuals are willing to expend considerably more energy in the pursuit of intrinsically motivated activities than they do in other areas of their lives.”
Hedonic and Eudaimonic Experiences among Wellness Tourists: An exploratory enquiry (2010, background): “Waterman criticised the central opera- tional definition of hedonic enjoyment as an indicator for intrinsic motivation as it does not consider the two different conceptions of well-being, hedonia and eudaimonia (Waterman, 2005).”
Reconsidering happiness: a eudaimonist's perspective (2008, background): “I have added selfrealization values (Waterman, 1993b, 2004) and effort (Waterman, 2005) to the list of variables to consider.”
Developing Students' Appreciation for What Is Taught in School (2008, background): “In particular, Alan Waterman (2005) distinguished between two forms of enjoyment that may be derived from activities: hedonic and eudaimonic.”
Happiness, inspiration and the fully functioning person: Separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in the workplace (2012, background): “…an ongoing debate as to whether the distinction between hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (EWB) translates well to science (Delle Fave & Bassi, 2009; Kashdan, Biswas-Diener, & King, 2008; Keyes & Annas, 2009; Kopperud & Vittersø, 2008; Waterman, 1993, 2005, 2008; Waterman, Schwartz, & Conti, 2008).”