From well-being to positive mental health: Conceptualization and qualitative development of an instrument in Singapore

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1785-1794

  Vaingankar, Janhavi Ajit ^a   Subramaiam, Mythily ^a   Lim, Yee Wei ^b   Sherbourne, Cathy ^b   Luo, Nan ^c   Ryan, Gery ^b   Phua, Amy ^a   Shahwan, Shazana ^a   Kwok, Kian Woon ^d   Brown, Julie ^b   Bradley, Melissa ^b   Edelen, Maria Orlando ^b   Chong, Siow Ann ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Singapore)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Focus group discussion; Instrument development; Mental well being; Multidimensional; Positive mental health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGAPORE;

ADULT; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SINGAPORE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872290737     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-011-0105-3     Document Type: Review

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