Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology
2025. Vol. 15, no. 4, 499–513
ISSN: 2658-3607 / 2658-6010 (online)
Psychological well-being: a review of approaches to theoretical structure
Abstract
This article presents a review of scientific approaches to the theoretical structure of psychological well-being of foreign and domestic authors. The relevance of the work is determined by the growing interest in the study of the problem field of psychological well-being of the individual on the part of the scientific community, administrative resources and society as a whole, which is also confirmed by numerous scientific studies and legislative acts. In the framework of the presented research, we have considered approaches to the interpretation and study of the theoretical structure of psychological well-being. The analysis of theoretical and empirical works of foreign and domestic researchers of psychological well-being of personality is presented. In addition, psychophysiological scientific research related to the study of physiological and functional state as an integral component of psychological well-being is considered. The relevance of the development of a unified operational construct of psychological well-being of personality as one of the most important directions of development of the specified problem field, which is reflected in the works of domestic researchers, is outlined.
General Information
Keywords: psychological well-being, subjective well-being, eudaemonic and hedonic well-being, positive psychology, neurostudies of psychological well-being
Journal rubric: Theoretical and Methodological Problems in Psychology
Article type: scientific article
Funding. The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 24-18-00389, title of the project “Social psychological and systemic-physiological markers of mental well-being and prosocial behavior of young people”.
Received 28.02.2025
Accepted
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For citation: Rean, A.A., Stavtsev, A.A., Shevchenko, A.O., Kuzmin, R.G. (2025). Psychological well-being: a review of approaches to theoretical structure . Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 15(4), 499–513. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/vspu_psychology/archive/2025_n4/Rean_Stavtsev_et_al (viewed: 03.03.2026)
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