Hedonic and Eudaimonic

Source
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11148302
Annu Rev Psychol. 2001;52:141-66.
On happiness and human potentials: a review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being.

by Ryan RM Ryan, EL Deci

Well-being is a complex construct that concerns optimal experience and functioning. Current research on well-being has been derived from two general perspectives: the hedonic approach, which focuses on happiness and defines well-being in terms of pleasure attainment and pain avoidance; and the eudaimonic approach, which focuses on meaning and self-realization and defines well-being in terms of the degree to which a person is fully functioning. These two views have given rise to different research foci and a body of knowledge that is in some areas divergent and in others complementary.