The portrait of a hedonist: The personality and ethics behind the value and maladaptive pursuit of pleasure |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Poland;2. Sam Houston State University, United States of America;3. University of Otago, New Zealand;1. Department of Psychology, Keimyung University, 2800 Dalgubeol Boulevard, Dalseo-Gu, Daegu 704-701, South Korea;2. University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan;3. Salgado de Oliveira University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;4. Monash University, Selangor, Malaysia;5. Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, India;6. Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China;7. Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea;8. Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA;9. Arab Open University, Kuwait, Kuwait;10. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore;11. National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan;12. University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands;13. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia;14. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan;15. Department of Psychology, IMCB, Islamabad, Pakistan;p. University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon, Philippines;1. Department of Business Management, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, 100 Seymour Rd, Utica, NY 13502, USA;2. Department of Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, California State University, Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92831, USA |
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| Abstract: | Hedonism is the prioritizing of pleasure over other life values and is theorized to be independent of well-being. However, popular culture depicts hedonists as unhappy, as well as selfishly unconcerned with others’ well-being. Because the current literature has not differentiated between people’s value of pleasure and their maladaptive pursuit of it, we examined if these related, but not equivalent, dispositions had different personality and morality profiles. We found that value-based hedonists have a distinct moral profile (i.e., they are less likely to endorse moral foundations associated with social conservatism) and, yet, they differ little from others in regard to personality traits. We also found that people’s maladaptive hedonism (i.e., excessive pleasure-seeking) was best predicted by their personality traits (i.e., being less agreeable, less conscientious, and more neurotic) rather than by their conceptions of right and wrong. We discuss how these results contribute to our understanding of hedonism and why some people pursue their value of pleasure into over-indulgence. |
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| Keywords: | Hedonism Values Personality Moral foundations |
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