Hedonic well-being concerns the balance of pleasure over pain, with Aristippus (c. Our results reveal a large overlap between the genes that influence hedonism and the genes that influence eudaimonia.įor centuries, people have asked themselves questions about well-being with hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being as its major philosophical schools of thoughts. Genetic correlations patterns with a range of positive and negative related phenotypes were largely similar for hedonic –and eudaimonic well-being. No significant enrichment for hedonic well-being is observed, although brain tissues were top ranked. Loci regulating expression showed significant enrichment in the brain cortex, brain cerebellum, frontal cortex, as well as the cerebellar hemisphere for eudaimonic well-being. This indicates that the genetic etiology of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being is substantially shared, with divergent (environmental) factors contributing to their phenotypic divergence. Joint analyses revealed a moderate phenotypic correlation ( r = 0.53) and a high genetic correlation ( r g = 0.78) between eudaimonic and hedonic well-being. We identified the first two genome-wide significant independent loci for eudaimonic well-being and six independent loci for hedonic well-being. Hence, we conducted the first genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of eudaimonic well-being ( N = ~108 K) and linked it to a GWAS of hedonic well-being ( N = ~222 K). To shed light on the relation between the two, large-scale available molecular genetic data were leveraged to gain more insight into the genetic architecture of the overlap between hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Whether hedonism or eudaimonia are two distinguishable forms of well-being is a topic of ongoing debate.
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