Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives
Journal of Happiness StudiesPublished 30 October 2009
Veronika Huta, Richard M. Ryan
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Pleasure, Hedonism, Eudaimonia, Virtue, Well-being, Elevation,
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