Oishi. S., Choi, H., Buttrick, N., Heintzelman, H., Kushlev, K., …, & Besser, L. (in press). The Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality. Download/Data
Abstract: Psychologists have thought of a good life in terms of its happiness or meaning. We propose that psycho-logical richness is another, neglected aspect of a good life. In Study 1, we administered an initial question-naire to a student sample, testing 2-week test-retest stability, convergent validity using informantreports. We conducted further tests of the scale’s factor structure, its correlations with personality anddemographic variables, and the generalizability of this psychological richness measure in a non-student American sample (Study 2), a nationally-representative probability sample of Americans(Study 3) and in a sample from India (Study 4). In all 4 studies, a psychologically rich life was predictedby openness to experience, extraversion, and lower levels of neuroticism.