A growing concern for meaning: Exploring the links between ego development and eudaimonia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Eudaimonia, in contrast to hedonia, is theorized to be a more complex type of positive functioning that involves personal growth and is guided by the pursuit of meaning. However, the existing evidence linking eudaimonia to personality development is rather scarce. To fill this gap, we aimed to explore whether ego development is related to eudaimonic well-being and eudaimonic orientations, most notably, the concern for meaning: we explored both the quantitative differences in the presence of meaning and the search for it, as well as qualitative differences in lay theories of meaning.

Methods

Russian-speaking volunteers recruited online (N = 364, aged 18 to 85, 63% female) completed measures of ego development (Washington University Sentence Completion Test

SUBMITTER: Osin EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10075199 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature