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A pproaches to happiness, life goals and well- b eing

A pproaches to happiness, life goals and well- b eing. Majda Rijavec – University of Zagreb, Croatia Ingrid Brdar – University of Rijeka, Croatia Dubravka Miljković – University of Zagreb, Croatia. Well-being. hedonic conceptions of well-being eud ai monic conceptions of well-being.

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A pproaches to happiness, life goals and well- b eing

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  1. Approaches to happiness, life goals and well-being Majda Rijavec – University of Zagreb, Croatia Ingrid Brdar – University of Rijeka, Croatia Dubravka Miljković – University of Zagreb, Croatia

  2. Well-being • hedonic conceptions of well-being • eudaimonic conceptions of well-being

  3. HEDONIC APPROACH creating high levels of happiness finding and fostering positive emotionality Kahnemann, Diener & Schwartz, 1999. EUDAIMONIC APPROACH expanding potentials cultivating personal growth Ryan & Deci, 2001.

  4. Hedonic approach

  5. Eudaimonic approach

  6. Well-being • subjective well-being–hedonic aspects • psychological well-being–eudaimonic aspects

  7. Precursors of well-being • Approaches to happiness • Life goals

  8. Approaches to happiness • Pleasant life • Engaged life • Meaningfull life Seligman, 2002

  9. Pleasant life • consists of having as many pleasures as possible and skills to amplify the pleasures

  10. Engaged life • comes through deep engagement, using one's strengths and virtues in activities that one finds challenging and rewarding

  11. Meaningfulllife • consists of using one's strengths in the service of something that one believes is larger than oneself

  12. Types of life goals Extrinsic Intrinsic • financial success • physical attractiveness • social fame/popularity • emotional intimacy • community service • personal growth

  13. Intrinsic and extrinsic life goalsKasser & Ryan, 1993, 1996, 2001 • intrinsic goals are associated with enhanced well-being • extrinsic goals do not enhance and often detracts from well-being

  14. Aim To examine the relationship between • approaches to happiness • intrinsic and extrinsic life goals • hedonic and eudaimonic well-being

  15. Hypotheses Pleasant life Extrinsic goals Hedonic well being Engaged life Eudaimonic well-being Intrinsic goals Meaningfull life

  16. Instruments • Ways of lifequestionnaire(Peterson, Park & Seligman, 2005) • Aspiration Index(Kasser & Ryan, 1996) • The Satisfaction With Life Scale(Diener, 1985) • The Scales of Psychological Well-Being(Ryff, 1989)

  17. Participants • 776 students • 286 males and 490 females • aged from 15 to 20 years

  18. Pleasant life is positively related only to hedonic well-being – directly and through extrinsic life-goals • Engaged life is directly positively related only to eudaimonic well-being • Meaningfull life is positively related to both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, and postively to eudaimonic well-being through intrinsic life-goals

  19. Conclusions • Different approaches to happiness are related to different types of well-being • This relationship is to a certain extent mediated by different kinds of life goals

  20. And that would be all, I guess!

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