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

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 examin...

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Autores principales: Cosme, Danielle, Mobasser, Arian, Pfeifer, Jennifer H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10684270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37930824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad065
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description 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 analyses assessed whether and how activity in a priori regions of interest—perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (pgACC), ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and ventral striatum—were related to subjective evaluations. These regions explained additional variance in whether participants endorsed or rejected items but were differentially related to evaluations. Stronger activity in pgACC was associated with a higher probability of endorsement across constructs, whereas stronger activity in vmPFC was associated with a higher probability of endorsing ill-being items, but a lower probability of endorsing self-oriented and social well-being items. These results add nuance to neurocognitive accounts of self-evaluation and extend our understanding of the neurobiological basis of subjective psychological health and well-being.
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spelling pubmed-106842702023-11-30 If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being Cosme, Danielle Mobasser, Arian Pfeifer, Jennifer H Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci Original Manuscript 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 analyses assessed whether and how activity in a priori regions of interest—perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (pgACC), ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and ventral striatum—were related to subjective evaluations. These regions explained additional variance in whether participants endorsed or rejected items but were differentially related to evaluations. Stronger activity in pgACC was associated with a higher probability of endorsement across constructs, whereas stronger activity in vmPFC was associated with a higher probability of endorsing ill-being items, but a lower probability of endorsing self-oriented and social well-being items. These results add nuance to neurocognitive accounts of self-evaluation and extend our understanding of the neurobiological basis of subjective psychological health and well-being. Oxford University Press 2023-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10684270/ /pubmed/37930824 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad065 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being
title If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being
title_full If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being
title_fullStr If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being
title_full_unstemmed If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being
title_short If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being
title_sort if you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being
topic Original Manuscript
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10684270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37930824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad065
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