If you're happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being.

ABSTRACT: Psychological health and well-being have important implications for individual and societal thriving. Research underscores the subjective nature of well-being, but how do individuals intuit this subjective sense of well-being in the moment? This pre-registered study addresses this question by examining the neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and their dynamic relationship with trial-level evaluations. Participants (N = 105) completed a self-evaluation task and made judgments about three facets of psychological health and positive functioning-self-oriented well-being, social well-being and ill-being. Consistent with pre-registered hypotheses, self-evaluation elicited activity in the default mode network, and there was strong spatial overlap among constructs. Trial-level

SUBMITTER: Cosme D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10684270 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature