Hedonic and eudaimonic
Conduct a poll of at least five people by asking the following questions. Evaluate each answer and decide whether you would consider it as hedonic or eudaimonic, and record it in the table. Finally, answer the question below the table in 200-350 words.
• What makes you happy?
Person #1 Family
Person #2 Success
Person #3 Money
Person #4 Loving people
Person #5 Living Life
•Would you say you are living “the good life?” Why or why not?
Person #1 Yes. I’m alive
Person #2 No, I havent accomplished all my goals
Person #3 Yes. I don’t want for anything
Person #4 Yes. I know God.
Person #5 Yes. I have a family that loves me.
•If you could make any changes you wished that would make you happier, what would those be?
Person #1 A better Job.
Person #2 More Money
Person #3 More Money
Person #4 A loving relationship
Person #5 A sucessful job
Hedonic Eudaimonic
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Write a summary of your results. What common beliefs about happiness were evident in your results
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Hedonic answers are answers that indicate that a person is looking for short term or immediate happiness. This is caused by more physical material and is basically satisfied by acquiring material possessions (Bruni and Porta, 2016). Person two says that success is what makes them happy and they are not living a good life because they have not achieved all their goals. For a change, they also want more money and this is what shows they are giving hedonic answers. Person three also gives hedonic……
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