Was Hercules Happy? Some Answers from a Functional Model of Human Well-being

By Joar Vittersø, Yngvil Søholt, Audun Hetland, Irina Alekseeva Thoresen, E. Røysamb. 2009

98 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/66714445d8f63b1628568a261d205943f2278545

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

Happiness, inspiration and the fully functioning person: Separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in the workplace (2012, background): “…shown in the literature review above, happiness and inspiration have distinct functions in regulating behaviour, and it is now a large number of replicated dissociations between these types of feeling states (Berlyne, 1971, 1974; Vittersø, Overwien, et al., 2009; Vittersø et al., 2010).”
Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives (2010, background): “…that a major function of hedonia may be emotional self-regulation, aimed at restoring one’s normal level of affect after it has been disrupted (Vittersø et al. 2009), or enhancing one’s affect, which in turn has a variety of emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal benefits (Fredrickson 2001;…”
Integrating the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives to more comprehensively understand wellbeing and pathways to wellbeing (2012, background): “eudaimonic approaches, Waterman (2008) suggested that this argument again reflected a misunderstanding of contemporary eudaimonic philosophers.”
Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning (2019, unknown): “Our perspective is also novel because prior evidence suggests that measures of life satisfaction and affect, central to previous research, tend to be quite insensitive to engaging in challenging, self-directed and purposeful tasks (Ryan & Deci, 2017; Vittersø, 2004, 2013; Vittersø et al., 2010) that”
Life satisfaction goes with pleasure and personal growth goes with interest: Further arguments for separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (2011, background): “For example, Winkielman, Schwarz, Fazendeiro, and Reber (2003) have argued that hedonic feelings are generated by stimuli that are processed by low resource demand, and several studies have shown that easiness produces pleasure and satisfaction (Vittersø et al., 2010; Winkielman & Cacioppo, 2001; Za”
An exploration of the well-being benefits of hedonic and eudaimonic behaviour (2013, background): “Further, Vittersø et al. (2010) proposed that eudaimonia serves to motivate behaviour directed at change and that such behaviour may therefore be unrelated to satisfaction with the status quo.”