Hedonic well-being relates to how individuals experience and rate their lives. People with
disabilities due to their pathology may more frequently suffer from anxiety and depressive
disorders than their able-bodied counterparts. Sports participation is an essential way to
cope with disability. On the other hand, compared with their able-bodied peers, para-
athletes undergo a unique series of stressors. Little is known in terms of hedonic well-being
in this specific population. We present the results of a multi-country survey of self-perceived …

Human well-being, as a complex, multi-dimensional construct, consists of hedonic and
eudaimonic dimensions (Ryan and Deci, 2001). The former, also known as subjective well-
being (SWB), relates to how individuals live and evaluate aspects of their lives (Diener,
1984), in terms of overall and domain-specific life satisfaction, and positive and negative
affect, the balance of which is known as happiness. Eudaimonic well-being, also known as
psychological and social well-being, is, instead, related to self-acceptance, meaningful …