Hedonia, eudaimonia, and well-being: an introduction

By Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan. 2008

2,166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Mohsen Joshanloo
2. Richard M. Ryan
3. Edward L. Deci
4. Kimberley J. Bartholomew
5. S. Jowett
6. T. Knight
7. Luke Wayne Henderson
8. Ethan A. McMahan

In Health

1. Gerben J. Westerhof
2. Ernst T. Bohlmeijer
3. Sanne M. A. Lamers
4. Mohsen Joshanloo
5. M. Wissing
6. Andrew E. Clark
7. Carol Graham
8. Milena Nikolova

In Social Psychology

1. Mohsen Joshanloo
2. Gerben J. Westerhof
3. Ernst T. Bohlmeijer
4. Richard M. Ryan
5. Sanne M. A. Lamers
6. Robert J. Vallerand
7. Milena Nikolova
8. Kimberley J. Bartholomew

Citations in the corpus

• Re-examining the Experiential Advantage in Consumption: A Meta-Analysis and Review (2020, background): “In multiple studies, including those following individuals over time, engagement in activities for more intrinsic reasons or activities that helped people feel like their true selves bol-stered daily well-being (Deci and Ryan 2008; Reis et al. 2000; Ryan and Deci 2001; Sheldon, Ryan, and Reis 1996).”
• Integrating Mindfulness into Positive Psychology: a Randomised Controlled Trial of an Online Positive Mindfulness Program (2016, background): “2002) that promote hedonic well-being (Deci and Ryan 2008).”
• Integrating the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives to more comprehensively understand wellbeing and pathways to wellbeing (2012, background): “The eudaimonic tradition is often contrasted with, and considered philosophically opposed to, the hedonic tradition (Deci & Ryan, 2008).”
• Measuring Lay Conceptions of Well-Being: The Beliefs About Well-Being Scale (2011, background): “This was done because well-being is multifaceted (Deci and Ryan 2008; Ryff and Singer 2008) and is not likely to be completely captured by single instruments measuring only one aspect of positive psychological functioning.”
• Validation of the Flourishing Scale and Scale of Positive and Negative Experience in Portugal (2011, background): “The debate around hedonic versus eudaimonic visions of well-being notwithstanding, it seems that well-being is probably best conceived as a multidimensional phenomenon that comprises aspects of both conceptions of well-being (e.g., King and Napa 1998; McGregor and Little 1998; Deci and Ryan 2008).”
• Experience, Emotion, and Eudaimonia: A Consideration of Tourist Experiences and Well-being (2017, background): “The eudaimonic view, in contrast to hedonia, which is defined by positive affect and the enjoyment of one’s moments, focuses on psychological well-being, and is defined more broadly in terms of the fully functioning person (Deci and Ryan 2008; Waterman 1993).”
• Life Satisfaction, Openness Value, Self-Transcendence, and Wisdom (2011, background): “Researchers suggest (e.g., Deci and Ryan 2008; Ryff 1989; Waterman 1993) that the eudaimoniac or cognitive aspect of life satisfaction, arising from virtue, self-actualization, or flourishing, is probably more likely to be associated with maturity and thus wisdom, than the hedonic or affective asp”
• Revisiting the Empirical Distinction Between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Aspects of Well-Being Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (2016, background): “rized as hedonic and/or eudaimonic (Deci and Ryan 2008).”