Alan S. Waterman

TL;DR: Waterman et al. as discussed by the authors found a strong positive correlation between personal expressiveness (eudaimonia) and hedonic enjoyment, and concluded that personal expression is a signifier of success in the process of self-realization.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature focusing on questions of the direction and timing of identity development, sex differences in development, and the identification of antecedent conditions relating to the choice of developmental pathways is presented.

TL;DR: A classification of conceptual and operational definitions of eudaimonia and hedonia can be found in this article, where several points of convergence and divergence across definitions are highlighted and important questions and directions for future research are identified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the distinction between hedonic enjoyment and eudaimonia was evaluated in three data sets involving use of the Personally Expressive Activities Questionnaire-Standard Form (PEAQ-S) with college student samples (n > 200 in each sample).

TL;DR: Support for the hypotheses tested provides evidence for the validity of the QEWB as an instrument for assessing eudaimonic well-being and implications for theory and future research directions are discussed.