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ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Eudaimonia as Personal Growth: Decades of Research and Needed Future Directions.

Carol D Ryff

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Review in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Carol D RyffDepartment of Psychology & Institute on Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.

Funding

U19 MIDlife in the United States-Diversity Supplement-WellsU19AG051426 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI CAROL D. RYFF · 2016 to 2026
$74.8M
Integrative Pathways to Cognitive, Affective, and Brain HealthU01AG077928 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Sterling C Johnson, MARGIE E LACHMAN · 2022 to 2026
$17.7M
NIA NIH HHS P01-AG020166NIA NIH HHS U01 AG077928NIA NIH HHS U19 AG051426NIA NIH HHS U19-AG051426
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article examined a conception of personal growth put forth in a multidimensional model of psychological well-being over 35 years ago. The model is widely used around the world. One key dimension of well-being is personal growth, which is examined in detail here. The conceptual underpinnings of this construct are reviewed, as well as its formal definition and empirical operationalization. Decades of scientific research about personal growth are selectively reviewed, focusing on factors that predict different levels of personal growth as well as how it is linked with other phenomena such as health, biological risk factors, and cognitive capacities. Future directions in the science and practice of personal growth are put forth, including the need to address obstacles to personal growth tied to widening inequality, the role of the arts and humanities in nurturing personal becoming, and the need to elevate virtue and ethics as core features of eudaimonia, with exemplars from human history provided.

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demographic factorseudaimoniahealth outcomesinequalitypersonal growthvirtue and ethicsvital inputs

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PMID42352799
PMCPMC13296169

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