EUDAIMONIA Flashcards
where well-being is construed as an ongoing, dynamic process (rather than a fixed state) of flourishing, personal growth, self-actualization or self-transcendence by means of engagement in an activity which utilizes one’s resources and is subjectively meaningful.
eudaimonic paradigm
is fulfilling or realizing one’s daimon or true nature.
Eudaimonism
A related concept yet empirically distinct to SWB is PWB.
Psychological Wellbeing (PWB)
According to Ryff and Keyes (1995) and Ryff and Singer (2006) the concept of PWB consists of six components
Self-acceptance
Personal growth
Purpose in life
Positive relations with others
Environmental mastery
Autonomy
AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS (3)
PLEASANT LIFE, GOOD LIFE, MEANINGFUL LIFE
Three basic psychological needs which must be met to attain psychological wellbeing.
AUTONOMY, COMPETENCE, RELATEDNESS
It is the tendency to self-regulate one’s behavior in accordance with personal volition (rather than external control).
Autonomy
It is the tendency to be interested and open, to seek learning/mastery opportunities (promote acquisition of new skills).
COMPETENCE
It is the tendency to feel connection and caring with group members (it promotes group cohesion and mutual protection).
RELATEDNESS
three more candidate basic needs that must be met for psychological well-being although they argue that there is not yet sufficient evidence for their inclusion.
Meaning, or making sense of one’s life,
appears as a basic need already in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs yet not recognized as one of the basic psychological needs because this need only appears when a person is threatened or made to feel insecure in any other way.
SAFETY/SECURITY
identifying one’s unique virtues and strengths of character, developing them, and then using them in the service of the greater good, particularly the welfare of humankind.
EUDAIMONIA
it’s a safety need of the self, a need to feel worth while.
SELF ESTEEM
is ‘the intense experiential involvement in moment-to-moment activity, which can be either physical or mental.
FLOW
This means that the activity must have rules and a clear outline in order to help orient the person doing it.
Structured activity with clear goals and immediate feedback.
This means that if the challenge is too far above our current skill level, then this will produce anxiety. If it is too low, it will produce boredom.
Balance of challenges versus skills.
The activity must initiate a complete merger of the activity and all consciousness.
Complete concentration (merging of action and awareness).
This stems from the activity’s ability to allow us to lose self-consciousness, thereby gaining a sense of control over what we are doing.
SENSE OF CONTROL
This element is the unique experience of where time speeds up, and before you know it, you’ve been engaging in the activity for hours when it felt like minutes.
TRANSFORMATION OF TIME
This component refers to the activity’s ability to make you want to do it all over again.
Activity for the sake of activity
You enjoy life and appear to be intrinsically led in your daily endeavors.
PERSONALITY
The activities in which we are most likely to experience flow are:
sports and activity, dance participation, creative arts, sex, socializing, studying, listening to music, reading and paradoxically working.
BENEFITS OF FLOW
increased positive emotions ,higher grades, levels of commitment and achievement in education ,greater engagement and leadership development
search for meaning and purpose is…. than the search for happiness (Wong, 2009).
MORE RELEVANT
Viktor Frankl’s concept of ‘will to meaning’ proposed three benefits of living a meaningful life, including
creative, experiential and attitudinal value
Since Frankl’s contribution, researchers have identified seven major sources of meaning, found cross-culturally, including
achievement, acceptance, relationship, intimacy, religion, self-transcendence and fairness
McGregor and Little (1998) concluded that the concept of wellbeing should be regarded as consisting of two elements
HAPPINESS AND MEANING
focuses on ‘human existence and the human drama of survival and flourishing’ (Wong, 2009: 361).
EXISTENCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
THREE TYPES OF MATURE HAPPINESS
AUTHENTIC, EUDAIMONIC, CHAIRONIC
comes from being an authentic individual)
AUTHENTIC HAPPINESS
comes from doing virtuous deeds
EUDAIMONIC HAPPINESS
a spiritual gift of happiness that is bestowed; it is independent of our abilities and circumstances especially within sufferin
CHAIRONIC HAPPINESS
The most feared concept in human existence, yet is a potential avenue for growth and development.
DEATH
Posits that death can have either a negative or positive effect on us, depending on how we view it.
MEANING MANAGEMENT THEORY
By embracing …., we can live more authentically, there by enhancing the likelihood of self-actualization.
DEATH
when one accepts that death is a part of life and attempts to live life to the fullest.
NEUTRAL DEATH ACCEPTANCE
when one accepts that there is a an afterlife that will be pleasurable.
APPROACH ACCEPTANCE
which perceives death as the preferable option to a miserable life.
ESCAPE ACCEPTANCE
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PURPOSE AND LIFE GOALS
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UNDERSTANDING THE DEMANDS OF EACH SITUATION AND LIFE AS A WHOLE
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RESPONSIBLE ACTIONS AND REACTIONS CONSISTENT WITH YOUR PURPOSE AND UNDERSTANDING
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EVALUATION OF YOUR LIFE IN ORDER TO ENSURE AUTHENTICITY AND EFFICACY
