Mental well-being : international contributions to the study of positive mental health / / Corey L.M. Keyes, editor

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Springer, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.19689
• Soggetto topico: Mental health
• Altri autori: KeyesCorey L. M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Toward an international epidemiology of positive mental health -- pt. II. Toward an internationalized understanding of mechanisms of positive mental health -- pt. III. Toward the application of positive mental health internationally.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mental well-being
• ISBN: 9789400751958; 9400751941; 1-283-84985-2; 94-007-5195-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910438260503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II