Three Ways to Be Happy: Pleasure, Engagement, and Meaning—Findings from Australian and US Samples

By D. Vella‐Brodrick, Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Effects of positive interventions and orientations to happiness on subjective well-being (2011, background): “A study by Vella-Brodrick, Park, and Peterson (2009) using a sample of 12,622 US adults and 323 Australian adults also found that meaning and engagement explained the greatest variance in all three components of SWB.”
Positive psychotherapy: A strength-based approach (2015, background): “Typical illustration of positive interventions would be Seligman et al. (2005), Vella-Brodrick, Park, and Peterson (2009), Mongrain and Anselmo-Mathews (2012) and Schueller & Parks (2012).”
Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction in twenty-seven nations (2009, background): “Along these lines, Vella-Brodrick, Park, and Peterson (2009) compared the orientations to happiness of US and Australian respondents.”
The Eudaimonic and Hedonic Components of Happiness: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings (2011, background): “Empirical evidence elucidates that a life filled with all three orientations leads to the greatest life satisfaction in comparison to a life with low levels of all three orientations, but that engagement and meaning are the most significant contributors to happiness relative to pleasure (Peterson et”
Life Goals and Well-Being: Are Extrinsic Aspirations Always Detrimental to Well-Being? (2009, unknown): “Yet other studies found that the pursuit of pleasure was only weakly linked to higher life satisfaction (Peterson et al., 2005; Vella-Brodrick et al., 2009).”
Linking Peoples’ Pursuit of Eudaimonia and Hedonia with Characteristics of their Parents: Parenting Styles, Verbally Endorsed Values, and Role Modeling (2012, background): “... correlated with greater psychological well-being, lower mental illness, and greater physical health (Bauer and McAdams 2010; Chan 2009; Friedman et al. 2007; Huta and Ryan 2010; Joshanloo and Ghaedi 2009; Kafka and Kozma 2002; Keyes and Annas 2009; Keyes et al. 2002; Nave et al. 2008; Park et al”