ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 16 – 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1525300
This article is part of the Research Topic Integrating Health Psychology in Practice: Enhancing Well-being and Improving Health Outcomes Across Diverse Contexts View all 5 articles
Provisionally accepted
- 1 Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- 2 Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- 3 Department of Dynamic, Clinical Psychology and Health, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- 4 Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Based on the theoretical framework that a fulfilling life encompasses happiness, meaning, and psychological richness, this study introduces the Italian translation of the Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire (PRLQ-I), exploring its connection with mindfulness, self-compassion, cognitive fusion, and anxiety, positing psychological richness as a critical, yet distinct, component of wellbeing. Psychological richness, characterized by diverse and interesting experiences, complements the hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions of well-being, offering a broader perspective on what constitutes a meaningful life. After a subsequent back translation procedure, the resulting questionnaire version was checked for the comprehensibility of the items. Then, the PRLQ-I’s reliability and single-factor structure were evaluated through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in a large sample (N=418) of the Italian population. The exploratory factor analysis confirmed the original PRLQ structure, indicating one dimension, namely psychological richness, and the excellent internal consistency of the questionnaire. The confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good fit of the model for the one-factor structure. We then showed that psychological richness is positively associated with mindfulness and self-compassion, confirming that psychological richness is related to other happiness constructs but appears to be distinct from them. Moreover, psychological richness is inversely related to anxiety and cognitive fusion. These results provide suggestions for incorporating these related dimensions into programs designed to promote psychological richness.
Keywords:
mindfulness, Health Psychology, happiness, Well being, self-compassion, Cognitive fusion, psychological richness
Received:
09 Nov 2024;
Accepted:
29 Jan 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Federica Mauro, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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