Abstract
The pursuit of happiness is one of the most coveted goals of human beings. There are increasingly more psychology studies seeking to find which factors are involved in happiness. There are two main approaches to this study: the hedonic and the eudaemonic paradigms. The hedonic paradigm proposes that well-being depends primarily on living a life with pleasant experiences, while the eudaemonic paradigm refers that well-being is not only achieved through pleasure, but mainly through upgrading the human potential. In the present study we worked with a sample consisting of 340 citizens of Cordoba (Argentina) to investigate which conceptions they have about happiness by the technique of Natural Semantic Networks (NSN). Two hypotheses were proposed in this regard: 1) participants will conceive happiness both in hedonic and eudaemonic terms, and 2) those participants with higher levels of happiness will have a predominantly eudaemonic conception of happiness. The first hypothesis was corroborated broadly, because the definitions obtained in the total sample and in the groups being compared contained both hedonic and eudaemonic components. Likewise, evidence favoring the second hypothesis is also provided; that is, participants with higher levels of subjective happiness have a predominantly eudaemonic conception of happiness.
Highlights
The pursuit of happiness is one of the most coveted goals of human beings
Las dos anteriores figuras permiten ver que para el caso de las palabras individuales correspondientes al paradigma hedónico (Figura 4), en el grupo de Felicidad Baja el 80% de esas palabras superan en los valores de porcentaje a aquellos observados para esas mismas palabras en el grupo Felicidad Alta
Para el caso de las palabras individuales correspondientes al paradigma eudaimónico (Figura 5), en el grupo de Felicidad Alta el 71.43% de esas palabras superan en los valores de porcentaje a aquellos observados para esas mismas palabras en el grupo Felicidad Baja
Summary
A continuación se muestran las palabras definidoras de la felicidad con mayores niveles de centralidad (Tabla 1 y Figura 1). Si se considera el porcentaje en función del puntaje total alcanzado por las 15 primeras palabras, puede apreciarse que el 36.28% del valor de centralidad total corresponde a definidoras hedónicas de la felicidad, mientras que el 63.72% restante corresponde a concepciones eudaimónicas de la felicidad. Cabe mencionar además que las tres primeras palabras definidoras de la felicidad, esto es, cuyos valores de centralidad son superiores, corresponden con una. Tabla 1 Las 15 palabras definidoras de la felicidad con mayor centralidad.
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