Need for cognition and psychological well-being among late adolescents

Adolescents' psychological well-being means being content with life, understanding an abundance of positive emotions, and acting as a buffer against negative results. Adolescents should build strong relationships, adapt to change, and face life’s challenges. Need for Cognition focuses on how adolescents process, store, and apply information about themselves and social situations. Late adolescence is a period in the human lifespan that encompasses less physical development and more cognitive development. This study highlights the importance of considering the non-linear influence of the need for cognition dimension in understanding adolescents' psychological well-being from a eudaimonic perspective. The current study investigated the correlation between the need for cognition and the psychological well-being of 120 late adolescents. The correlation analysis shows a significant solid relationship (r = .435, p>.05) between the need for cognition and psychological well-being among late adolescents. The results have substantial implications for youth positive mental health promotion, including for school-collage-based policies and practices in the social life of late adolescents. It has enormous implications in neuro-psychological interventions in late adolescents in the field of cognitive neuroscience as well as in counseling and psychotherapy.