Psychological health and well-being has 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 preregistered 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 preregistered 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—pgACC, vmPFC, and VS—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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如果你快乐并且你知道这一点：自我评估心理健康和幸福的神经关联

心理健康和福祉对个人和社会的繁荣具有重要影响。研究强调幸福感的主观本质，但个人如何凭直觉感知当下的这种主观幸福感呢？这项预先注册的研究通过检查自我评估心理健康的神经相关性及其与试验水平评估的动态关系来解决这个问题。参与者（N = 105）完成自我评估任务，并对心理健康和积极功能的三个方面——自我导向的幸福感、社会幸福感和不适感做出判断。与预先注册的假设一致，自我评估引发了默认模式网络的活动，并且构建之间存在很强的空间重叠。试验水平分析评估了先验感兴趣区域（pgACC、vmPFC 和 VS）的活动是否以及如何与主观评估相关。这些区域解释了参与者是否认可或拒绝项目的额外差异，但与评估有不同的相关性。pgACC 的较强活动与跨结构认可的较高概率相关，而 vmPFC 的较强活动与认可不适项目的较高概率相关，但认可自我导向和社会福祉项目的概率较低。这些结果增加了自我评价的神经认知解释的细微差别，并扩展了我们对主观心理健康和福祉的神经生物学基础的理解。