Differential explanations of psychological well-being according to clinical personality patterns

The purpose of this study was to examine the explanatory power of a predictive model of psychological well-being, consisting of mindfulness, private self-consciousness with its two dimensions, self-reflection and insight, emotional regulation, psychological inflexibility and external shame. Also, it was the author’s intention to explore the mediating effect of insight on the relationship between emotional regulation and psychological well-being. The current research involved a nonexperimental, cross-sectional design exploring the presence of psychological well-being at clinical personality patterns. The quantitative methodology was used to collect and analyse the data obtained from all the respondents. Researchers adapted and pretested the questionnaire set (PWB, MAAS, AAQ-II, OAS-II, ERQ, SRIS) to the Romanian context before distributing it to 268 participants. SPSS (V. 20) and Hayes’s PROCESS tool were used to investigate the data. The research findings illustrated that the effectiveness of predictors varies depending on clinical personality patterns. Among participants without clinical personality pattern scores, psychological inflexibility, emotional regulation, and self-reflection emerged as significant psychological factors predicting psychological well-being. For those identified with a histrionic clinical personality pattern, emotional regulation and psychological inflexibility constituted the most robust explanatory model for psychological well-being. Similarly, for individuals exhibiting depressive clinical personality patterns, only emotional regulation and psychological inflexibility played pivotal roles in predicting psychological well-being. Furthermore, the study highlighted a significant indirect effect of emotional regulation on psychological well-being through insight. Elevated emotional regulation levels indirectly contribute to higher psychological well-being by enhancing insight, thus promoting overall psychological well-being.