Wellness as healthy functioning or wellness as happiness: the importance of eudaimonic thinking (response to the Kashdan et al. and Waterman discussion)

By Richard M. Ryan, V. Huta. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Adventure recreation and subjective well-being: a conceptual framework (2020, background): “Considerable research has demonstrated that satisfying these psychological needs for self-expression and self-transcendence predicts differences in well-being at (a) the level of daily well-being (Reis et al., 2000) and (b) the overall life satisfaction levels (Ryan & Huta, 2009).”
Does Meaning in Life Predict Psychological Well-Being? (2015, background): “…of personal strengths, and self-realization; this concept is associated to ‘psychological well-being’: it would include personal growth and actualization of capabilities as positive evidence of psychological functioning (Keyes, 2006; Ring, Höfer, McGee, Hickey, & O’Boyle, 2007; Ryan & Huta, 2009).”
Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives (2010, background): “We expected both eudaimonia and hedonia to relate to life satisfaction, based on the findings of Peterson et al. (2005), and also based on the nature of life satisfaction, which may be a non-specific global evaluation of one’s of well-being (Ryan and Huta 2009).”
Revisiting the Empirical Distinction Between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Aspects of Well-Being Using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (2016, background): “Many researchers interpret these findings (in conjunction with other empirical evidence) as evidence of the existence of empirically separable hedonic and eudaimonic latent factors which merit separate conceptualization and measurement (Delle Fave and Bassi 2009; Keyes and Annas 2009; Ryan and Huta ”
Hedonic and Eudaimonic Experiences among Wellness Tourists: An exploratory enquiry (2010, background): “…psychological well-being consists of high levels of both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, and that while these two approaches are related they are also conceptually distinct (Keyes, 2002, 2005; King, Hicks, Krull, & Del Gaiso, 2006; Ryan & Deci, 2001; Ryan & Huta, 2009; Ryan, Huta, & Deci, 2008).”
Toward a Dual-Systems Model of What Makes Life Worth Living (2013, background): “Well-being not only refl ects healthy functioning and happiness (Ryan & Huta, 2009) but also serves as an evaluative function in the self-determination process (Ryan, Huta, & Deci, 2008).”
Integrating the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives to more comprehensively understand wellbeing and pathways to wellbeing (2012, background): “Ryan and Huta (2009) agreed, suggesting that scientific rigour did not mean an absence of theory.”
Measuring well-being: A comparison of subjective well-being and PERMA (2018, methodology): “Indeed, critiques of Diener’s (1984) SWB model (among others) have led to an important outcome – the empirical investigation of areas of well-being beyond life satisfaction and emotions (e.g. meaning and purpose in life, autonomy; Ryan & Huta, 2009).”
Using wellbeing for public policy: Theory, measurement, and recommendations (2016, background): “Whereas hedonic wellbeing emphasizes the importance of feeling good, eudaemonic wellbeing is characterized by functioning well in multiple domains of life (Keyes & Annas, 2009; Ryan & Huta, 2009).”
University students’ strong experiences of music (2011, background): “The second concept, eudaimonia, or living life in a satisfying way, may however also be necessary to achieve a state of happiness (Waterman, 1993), although this approach has to date been underrepresented within positive psychology (Deci & Ryan, 2008; Ryan & Huta, 2009).”
Two traditions of happiness research, not two distinct types of happiness (2009, unknown): “Only two of the commentaries address the importance of context in studying happiness (Delle Fave & Bassi, 2009; Ryan & Huta, 2009), only two commentaries explicitly inform us that the work of recent philosophers must be read to understand the nature of eudaimonia (Keyes & Annas, 2009; Waterman,…”