Interactive: the six-factor profile

Set each of Ryff’s six subscale scores (3–18). The summed index collapses the profile to one number; the dispersion statistic below shows how much shape that single number hides. Two profiles can share a total yet have opposite shapes.

mean 13.031818Aut12Mas14Gro6Rel10Pur18Acc
Autonomy18
Env. Mastery12
Personal Growth14
Positive Relations6
Purpose in Life10
Self-Acceptance18
Total 78 · mean 13.0 · variance around the mean 18.3. This profile is highly uneven — the profile is dominated by its extremes. Hold the total fixed and move the dispersion: the index does not change, but the clinical picture does.

Interactive: two traditions in one person

Hedonic well-being asks how good do you feel?; eudaimonic well-being asks how well are you functioning? They correlate, but they come apart. Move each slider and watch the gap — a large gap is exactly what a single happiness score would erase.

Hedonicfeeling good42Eudaimonicfunctioning well78
Hedonic (feeling)42
Eudaimonic (function)78
Gap (eudaimonic − hedonic) = +36. This is a meaning-rich, low-mood life — functioning outruns felt happiness (the classic eudaimonic/hedonic split).

Interactive: does a well-being intervention stick?

Randomized trials of well-being interventions produce real but modest gains, and the live question is how much of the gain survives to follow-up. Set the post-test effect and the share retained, and read the trajectory against an untreated control.

40506070BaselinePost-testFollow-uptreatmentcontrol
Post-test effect (d)0.33
Retained at follow-up70%
A post-test effect of d = 0.33 is small (the range meta-analyses report for well-being interventions). It lifts the treated group 3.3 points above control, of which 2.3 points (70%) remain at follow-up. Durability, not the peak, is what distinguishes a lasting intervention from a transient boost.