The mental health continuum: from languishing to flourishing in life.

By Corey Keyes. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2002

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Social Psychology

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Assessing Employee Wellbeing in Schools Using a Multifaceted Approach: Associations with Physical Health, Life Satisfaction, and Professional Thriving (2014, methodology): “Indeed, a positive psychology approach suggests that mental health ranges from extremely negative to extremely positive (Huppert & So, 2013; Keyes, 2002).”
Risk and protective factors for mental health in elite athletes: a scoping review (2019, methodology): “Studies that investigated both sides of the MH continuum (i.e. languishing and flourishing; Keyes, 2002) were rare and mostly qualitative (e.”
The state of wellbeing science: Concepts, measures, interventions, and policies (2014, background): “The strongest proponent of the two-continua model is Keyes (2002b); one continuum goes from severe mental disorder to no mental disorder, while the other goes from low wellbeing (“languishing”) to high wellbeing (“flourishing”).”
Effects of positive interventions and orientations to happiness on subjective well-being (2011, background): “There are two main theoretical perspectives which focus on how best to achieve happiness, the hedonic and eudaimonic approaches (Keyes, 2002; Ryff, 1989).”
Emotional and psychological well-being in children: the development and validation of the Stirling Children’s Well-being Scale (2015, background): “…have been perceived by some to be opposing perspectives, there is a growing consensus that it is the combination of the earlier mentioned that constitutes a more complete understanding of general PWB (van Dierendonck, 2004; Keyes, 2002; McDowell, 2009; Ryan & Deci, 2001; Springer & Hauser, 2006).”
Psy-Flex: A contextually sensitive measure of psychological flexibility (2021, positive): “The MHC (Keyes, 2002) is a widely used measure of well-being.”
University Student Mental Well-Being during COVID-19 Outbreak: What Are the Relationships between Information Seeking, Perceived Risk and Personal Resources Related to the Academic Context? (2020, background): “Keyes [4,14] affirmed that a diagnosis of mental health is made when people show high levels of at least one symptom of hedonia and on just over half of the eudaimonia symptoms.”
Resilience and mental health. (2010, neutral): “Such a construct can be found in the combination of positive feelings of subjective well-being together with positive functioning in daily life which has been described as ‗flourishing‘ (Keyes, 2002).”
Mental Health as a Complete State: How the Salutogenic Perspective Completes the Picture (2014, background): “In 1995 and in the 2005 follow-up of the MIDUS sample, adults completed the long form of the mental health continuum (MHC-LF) (Keyes, 2002 , 2005b ) and the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short Form (CIDI-SF) (Kessler, Andrews, Mroczek, Ustun, & Wittchen, 1998 ).”
Living well by “flowing’ well: The indirect effect of autotelic personality on well-being through flow experience (2020, background): “…people perceive happiness as an important life goal (Diener, 2000; van Boven, 2005), but unfortunately, not all achieve high levels of well-being (broadly defined, including subjective evaluations of quality of life and psychological functioning; see Diener, 2000; Keyes, 2002 for discussion).”
Relationship between Psychological Capital and Quality of Life: The Role of Courage (2020, background): “This framework underlines the salience of individuals’ optimal psychological functioning (flourishing) in the eudemonic perspective as the basilar component in the evaluation of well-being [19,20].”