Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives

By V. Huta, Richard M. Ryan. 2010

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Richard M. Ryan
2. V. Huta
3. E. Diener
4. T. Kashdan
5. M. Steger
6. T. Knight
7. Luke Wayne Henderson
8. R. Biswas-Diener

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Holli-Anne Passmore
2. V. Huta
3. T. Knight
4. Luke Wayne Henderson
5. Andrew J. Howell
6. Ben Richardson
7. A. Thomson
8. Jason T. Siegel

In Social Psychology

1. Richard M. Ryan
2. E. Diener
3. V. Huta
4. T. Kashdan
5. Frank Martela
6. M. Steger
7. Martin E. P. Seligman
8. R. Biswas-Diener

Citations in the corpus

• Validation of the Italian Versions of the Flourishing Scale and of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (2017, background): “Whereas eudaimonic motives favor individual growth and meaning construction, hedonic motives foster emotional regulation (Huta & Ryan, 2010).”
• Linking Peoples’ Pursuit of Eudaimonia and Hedonia with Characteristics of their Parents: Parenting Styles, Verbally Endorsed Values, and Role Modeling (2012, methodology): “Note that the significant result for carefreeness was a little surprising, since eudaimonia has not related to carefreeness very often, though it has related to carefreeness on occasion (Huta and Ryan 2010).”
• The Quiet Ego Scale: Measuring the Compassionate Self-Identity (2015, background): “But rather than measure those values per se (e.g., Kasser and Ryan 1993, 1996; Huta and Ryan 2010), we have aimed to measure views of self, others, actions, and time that are likely to reflect those values and thus the prosocial characteristics associated with a quiet ego, such as humility,…”
• The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Meta-analysis (2019, background): “EWB is related to, but distinct from, HWB (Huta and Ryan 2010; Ryan and Deci 2001) and it is likely that eudaimonia and hedonia each influence and nurture the development of the other (Fredrickson 2004).”
• Nature Involvement Increases Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Two-Week Experimental Study (2014, positive): “The Elevating Experience Scale was validated on samples of undergraduate students; principal component analyses showed that elevating experience was a distinct aspect of well-being (Huta & Ryan, 2010).”
• Conceptualizing adventurous nature sport: A positive psychology perspective (2018, background): “For example, Huta and Ryan (2010) argued that the pursuit of eudaimonic well-being results in a more complete and meaningful life and fosters more stable and enduring hedonic happiness.”
• Eco-Existential Positive Psychology: Experiences in Nature, Existential Anxieties, and Well-Being (2014, neutral): “Although often maligned as being of lesser quality than, or even opposed to, eudaimonic well-being, Huta and Ryan (2010) put forth that these types of happiness ‘‘occupy overlapping and distinct niches within a complete picture of well-being, and their combination may be associated with the…”
• Well-being and the Dark Triad (2015, background): “Due to narcissism's links to greater self-esteemand SWB, and the overlapbetween hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (Huta & Ryan, 2010) one might expect to find a similar pattern of results in the eudaimonic arena.”