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1 online resource |
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Part 1. Toward an International Epidemiology of Positive Mental Health -- Promoting and Protecting Positive Mental Health: Early and Often Throughout the Lifespan / Corey L.M. Keyes -- Complete Mental Health in South Australian Youth: Prevalence, Measurement, and Promotion / Anthony Venning, Jaklin Eliott, Lisa Kettler and Anne Wilson -- The Complete Mental Health Model: The Social Distribution of Mental Health and Mental Illness in the Dutch Population / Gerben J. Westerhof -- The Prevalence of Levels of Well-Being Revisited in an African Context / Marié P. Wissing and Q. Michael Temane -- Prevalence and Correlates of Complete Mental Health in the South Korean Adult Population / Young-Jin Lim, Young-Gun Ko, Hee-Cheon Shin and Yongrae Cho -- Positive Mental Health: Measurement, Prevalence, and Correlates in a Chinese Cultural Context / Ke Li Yin, Jia Mei He and Yan Fen Fu -- The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS): Performance in Different Cultural and Geographical Groups / Sarah Stewart-Brown |
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Part 2. Toward an Internationalized Understanding of Mechanisms of Positive Mental Health -- Universals and Cultural Differences in the Causes and Structure of Happiness: A Multilevel Review / Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Katherine L. Ryan -- Mental Well-Being in Iran: The Importance of Comprehensive Well-Being in Understanding the Linkages of Personality and Values / Mohsen Joshanloo -- Emotional Well-Being and Self-Control Skills of Children and Adolescents: The Israeli Perspective / Michael Rosenbaum and Tammie Ronen -- The Nature of Happiness: Nature Affiliation and Mental Well-Being / Andrew J. Howell and Holli-Anne Passmore -- Physiological Correlates of Mental Well-Being / Petra Lindfors |
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Part 3. Toward the Application of Positive Mental Health Internationally -- Recovery: A Complete Mental Health Perspective / Helene L. Provencher and Corey L.M. Keyes -- The Significance of Salutogenesis and Well-Being in Mental Health Promotion: From Theory to Practice / Eva Langeland and Hege Forbech Vinje -- Positive Psychology Interventions: Research Evidence, Practical Utility, and Future Steps / Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick -- Promoting Positive Mental Health and Well-Being: Practice and Policy / Margaret M. Barry |
| Summary |
This book provides a new generation of research in which scholars are investigating mental health and human development as not merely the absence of illness or dysfunction, but also the presence of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is a fundamental facet of the quality of life. Nations, communities, or individuals who are wealthier, have more education, and live longer are considered to have higher quality of life or personal well-being. The subjective standpoint emerged during the 1950s as an important alternative to the objective approach to measuring individual's well-being. Research has clearly shown that measures of subjective well-being, which are conceptualized as indicators of mental health (or 'mental well-being'), are factorially distinct from but correlated with measures of symptoms of common mental disorders such as depression. Despite countless proclamations that health is not merely the absence of illness, there had been little or no empirical research to verify this assumption. Research now supports the hypothesis that health is not merely the absence of illness, it is also the presence of higher levels of subjective well-being. This edited volume brings together for the first time the growing scientific literature on positive mental health that is now being conducted in many countries other than the USA and provides students and scholars with an invaluable source for teaching and for generating new ideas for furthering this important line of research |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Psychotherapy |
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Psychology, clinical |
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Health Psychology |
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Quality of Life Research |
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Popular Science in Psychology |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Mental health.
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Well-being.
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Psychology.
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Quality of life.
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Mental Health
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Psychology
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Quality of Life
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mental health.
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psychology.
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quality of life.
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comfort (sensation)
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
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Quality of life
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Psychology
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Mental health
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Well-being
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Keyes, Corey L. M.
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| ISBN |
9789400751958 |
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9400751958 |
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940075194X |
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9789400751941 |
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