Psychological richness and wisdom among Filipino university students

Introduction: Psychological richness has recently been proposed as a third pathway to well-being, alongside hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Although psychological richness has been theoretically linked to wisdom, empirical studies using an established multidimensional measure of wisdom remain limited, particularly outside predominantly Western contexts. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study examined associations between psychological richness, wisdom, and strengths use among 201 Filipino university students. Participants completed measures of psychological richness, wisdom, openness to experience, and strengths use. Multiple regression analyses adjusted for openness to experience, age, gender, short trips, study abroad, and childhood fiction reading, with bootstrap inference based on 1000 samples. Results: Psychological richness was positively associated with overall wisdom. Specifically, psychological richness was significantly associated with acceptance of divergent perspectives, emotional regulation, prosocial behavior, social advising, and spirituality, but was not significantly associated with decisiveness and self-reflection. In addition, strengths use was positively associated with psychological richness. Conclusions: These findings provide empirical support for the association between psychological richness and wisdom. Furthermore, the findings indicate a positive association between strengths use and psychological richness. By providing evidence from a Filipino university sample, this study extends the empirical examination of psychological richness beyond the predominantly Western contexts represented in previous research.