Well-Being in its Natural Habitat: Orientations to Happiness and the Experience of Everyday Activities

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Well-Being in its Natural Habitat: Orientations to Happiness and the Experience of Everyday Activities

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Peterson, Park, and Seligman (2005) have proposed that individuals seek to increase their well-being through three behavioural orientations; via pleasure, meaning, and engagement. The current study investigated how orientations to happiness influenced the pursuit and experience of daily activities using an experience sampling methodology (ESM). Daily activities were experienced as a blend of both hedonic and eudaimonic characteristics. Dominant orientation to happiness did not predict engagin...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2013

Creator

Grimm, Carsten

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8040

Related subjects

orientations to happiness / experience sampling / the full life / happiness / well-being / eudaimonia / hedonia / daily life

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