Measuring hedonia and eudaimonia as motives for activities: Cross-national investigation through traditional and Bayesian structural equation modeling

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Bujacz, Aleksandra ^a,b   Vittersø, Joar ^b   Huta, Veronika ^c   Kaczmarek, Lukasz Dominik ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian structural equation modeling; Eudaimonia; Hedonia; Measurement invariance; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906344992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00984     Document Type: Article

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