▪ Abstract 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�…