Correlates and predictors of positive mental health for school going children. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Singh, Kamlesh; Junnarkar, Mohita
• Is Part Of: Personality and individual differences. Volume 76(2015)
• Page Start: 82
• Page End: 87
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Eudemonic -- Hedonic -- Positive mental Health -- Quality of life -- Well-being; Personality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Individuality -- Periodicals; Personality Development -- Periodicals; Personnalité -- Périodiques; Individualité -- Périodiques; 155.205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.11.047
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-8869

Abstract

Abstract: The relationship between positive mental health and well-being was examined in 604 North Indian high school and secondary high school going children aged 11–18 years. The study employed various scales such as Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF; Keyes, 2005), Scale of Positive and Negative Experiences (SPANE) and Flourishing Scale (FS; Diener et al., 2010), World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF, 1996) and Personal Well-being Index Scale-School Going Children (PWI-SC; Cummins & Lau, 2005). The MHC-SF predicted the positive mental health and the various predictors used in this study were SPANE, FS, WHOQOL-BREF and PWI-SC. Positive mental health was found positively correlated with SPANE P, life satisfaction, personal well-being, flourishing and all four domains of quality of life (physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships and environmental health) and negatively correlated with SPANE N. Well-being measures of flourishing, SPANE P, SPANE-N, all four domains of quality of life (physical health, psychological well-being, social relationships and environmental health) significantly predicted children's positive mental health (49% of variance) and its dimensions like emotional well-being (41% of variance), social well-being (24% of variance) and psychological well-being (47% of variance). Highlights: Positive mental health correlated positively with SPANE-P, LS, PWI, FS and quality of life and negatively with SPANE-N. 49% of Mental health variance was significantly predicted by well-being measures. 41% of Emotional Well-being variance, 24% of social well-being variance and 47% of psychological well-being variance was predicted by well-being measures.