The Hedonic and Eudaimonic Validity of the Orientations to Happiness Scale

Henderson, Luke Wayne; Knight, Tess; Richardson, Ben

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“…These findings contradict findings of Vittersø and Søholt (2011), which suggested the opposite: pleasure was a stronger predictor of life satisfacion than engagement and interest. Furthermore, claims of Peterson and colleagues, as well as Schueller and Seligman have been again challenged, most recently by Henderson et al (2013) who found that daily hedonic behaviours are more strongly related to life satisfaction than eudaimonic behaviours. Obviously, the debate is still alive.…”

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Everyday Activities: Beneficial Effects of Eudaimonic and Hedonic Motivation on Subjective Well-Being

Tončić

Anić

2014

Curr Psychol

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The study focuses on the impact of time and motives for everyday activities on mood and daily satisfaction. One hundred twenty-one undergraduate students participated in study using experience sampling method. The short PANAS scale, one item momentary satisfaction measure and state orientation to happiness scale were used. The measures were administered five times a day for 7 days via hand-held devices. The data were modeled using a linear mixed-effects approach. The models fitted the data reasonably well, especially for satisfaction and positive affect (PA) sharing similar parameter estimates. Both showed a nonlinear increase through the week while PA showed a similarly shaped circa-diurnal rhythm too. Negative affect (NA) showed almost no rhythm at all. Both hedonic and eudaimonic motives increased satisfaction and PA. Hedonic motives had a negative impact on NA. Generally, on momentary level, hedonic motives have a greater impact while longer intervals seem to emphasize the importance of eudaimonic motives.

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Everyday Activities: Beneficial Effects of Eudaimonic and Hedonic Motivation on Subjective Well-Being

Tončić

Anić

2014

Curr Psychol

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“…Namely, low connectivity of OTH Scale and SWLS can be explained due to the difference in semantics. Henderson et al (2013) stress that the sub-scale measuring orientation to pleasure does not strongly correlate to hedonistic behaviour which is quite paradoxical. At the same time, the sub-scale measures, not the behaviour itself but an extent to which people are searching and striving for hedonistic pleasure.…”

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Subjective Dimension of Mental Health: Psychometric Properties of the Ukrainian Version of Orientation to Happiness Scale

Kryvenko¹,

Petryk²

2019

EJIS

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According to Seligman's concept of authentic happiness, people tend to choose one of three different ways to be happy: through pleasure, through engagement, and through meaning. This paper addresses the development of Ukrainian adaptation of the 18-item three-dimensional Orientation to Happiness Scale (Peterson, Park, Seligman, 2005) and the examination of its psychometric properties. On the results of PCA (N = 468) a three-factor structure due to a theoretical framework was confirmed with Cronbach's alphas between .65 and .80. A satisfactory test-retest stability for each sub-scale in the 4-week period (N = 123) and the construct validity were revealed. During criterion-validity analysis statistically significant differences (p < .05) in orientations to happiness were shown for religious and non-religious people, reflecting the specificity of connections between happiness, faith, and religious behaviour.

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“…This subscale aims at measuring flow, although there is no agreement in the literature about whether it is part of eudaimonic well-being [32] or a third orientation to happiness [10]. Therefore, following the researchers who point to the inconsistent arguments about this construct [17] and other researchers who are interested in the study of the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives [33], in the present research, we focus on the life of pleasure and the life of meaning orientations to happiness.…”

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“…Specifically, they found that an orientation to pleasure was a positive significant predictor of experiences of pleasure, and an orientation to meaning was a positive significant predictor of experiences of meaning. Moreover, Henderson, Knight, and Richardson [17], using the day reconstruction method (DRM), found that the orientation to a meaningful life predicted higher eudaimonic behavior. This issue was also partially addressed by Waterman [29], who asked respondents to report on "activities of importance" and their features, although he did not actually measure daily experiences.…”

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“…For example, Reference [15] showed that each OTH domain influenced its matching momentary experience domain, which means that a life of pleasure influenced the experience of momentary pleasure, and a life of meaning influenced the experience of momentary meaning. In addition, other research shows that each OTH domain can influence its non-matching momentary domain; thus, a relationship has been found between a life of pleasure and the experience of momentary meaning, and between a life of meaning and the experience of momentary pleasure [16,17].…”

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From Happiness Orientations to Work Performance: The Mediating Role of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Experiences

Peiró

Kożusznik

Soriano

2019

IJERPH

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In organizations, psychologists have often tried to promote employees’ well-being and performance, and this can be achieved through different pathways. The happy-productive worker thesis states that ‘happy’ workers perform better than ‘unhappy’ ones. However, most studies have focused on hedonic well-being at the expense of the person’s eudaimonic experience. This study examines whether orientations to happiness (i.e., life of pleasure/meaning) are related to hedonic (i.e., perception of comfort) and eudaimonic (i.e., activity worthwhileness) experiences that, in turn, improve performance. We applied multilevel structural equation modeling to diary data (68 office workers; n = 471 timepoints). We obtained significant effects of: life of pleasure on self-rated performance through activity worthwhileness, life of meaning on performance (self-rated, rated by the supervisor) through activity worthwhileness, and life of meaning on performance rated by the supervisor through perception of comfort. Results show more significant paths from/or through eudaimonia to performance than from/or through hedonia. The results suggest that the pursuit and/or experience of eudaimonic happiness is more beneficial for work performance than the pursuit and/or experience of hedonic happiness. Theoretical and practical implications for organizations are discussed.

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The Hedonic and Eudaimonic Validity of the Orientations to Happiness Scale

Cited by 44 publications

References 30 publications

Everyday Activities: Beneficial Effects of Eudaimonic and Hedonic Motivation on Subjective Well-Being

Everyday Activities: Beneficial Effects of Eudaimonic and Hedonic Motivation on Subjective Well-Being

Subjective Dimension of Mental Health: Psychometric Properties of the Ukrainian Version of Orientation to Happiness Scale

From Happiness Orientations to Work Performance: The Mediating Role of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Experiences

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