EUDAIMONIA Flashcards
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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).
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