Language-based assessments can predict psychological and subjective well-being.

ABSTRACT: Well-being is commonly defined in terms of comfort, happiness, functioning, and flourishing. Scholars distinguish between subjective well-being (i.e., perceiving life as pleasant) and psychological well-being (i.e., perceiving life as meaningful). While advances in natural language processing have enabled automated assessments of subjective well-being from language, their ability to capture psychological well-being remains underexplored. Across three studies (one preregistered), we examined how well language-based models predict self-reported subjective and psychological well-being. Participants provided verbal or written responses about their satisfaction with life and autonomy, along with standard questionnaire measures. We used contextual word embeddings from transformer-based models to

SUBMITTER: Mesquiti S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12913933 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature