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      Positive mental health among health professionals working at a psychiatric hospital

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          Abstract

          Background

          Positive mental health (PMH) is a combination of emotional, psychological and social well-being that is necessary for an individual to be mentally healthy. The current study aims to examine the socio-demographic differences of PMH among mental health professionals and to explore the association between job satisfaction and total PMH.

          Methods

          Doctors, nurses and allied health staff (n = 462) completed the online survey which included the multidimensional 47-item PMH instrument as well as a single item job satisfaction question. Associations of PMH with job satisfaction were investigated via linear regression models.

          Results

          Significant differences in PMH total and domain specific scores were observed across socio-demographic characteristics. Age and ethnicity were significantly correlated with PMH total scores as well as various domain scores, while gender, marital and residency status and the staff’s position were only significantly correlated with domain specific scores. Job satisfaction was also found to be a significantly associated with total PMH.

          Conclusion

          The workplace is a key environment that affects the mental health and well-being of working adults. In order to promote and foster PMH, workplaces need to consider the importance of psychosocial well-being and the wellness of staff whilst providing an environment that supports and maintains overall health and work efficiency.

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          Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior

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              Mental Illness and Mental Health: The Two Continua Model Across the Lifespan

              Mental health has long been defined as the absence of psychopathologies, such as depression and anxiety. The absence of mental illness, however, is a minimal outcome from a psychological perspective on lifespan development. This article therefore focuses on mental illness as well as on three core components of positive mental health: feelings of happiness and satisfaction with life (emotional well-being), positive individual functioning in terms of self-realization (psychological well-being), and positive societal functioning in terms of being of social value (social well-being). The two continua model holds that mental illness and mental health are related but distinct dimensions. This model was studied on the basis of a cross-sectional representative internet survey of Dutch adults (N = 1,340; 18–87 years). Mental illness was measured with the Brief Symptom Inventory and mental health with the Mental Health Continuum Short Form. It was found that older adults, except for the oldest-old, scored lower on psychopathological symptoms and were less likely to be mentally ill than younger adults. Although there were fewer age differences for mental health, older adults experienced more emotional, similar social and slightly lower psychological well-being. In sum, today’s older adults have fewer mental illness problems, but they are not in a better positive mental health than today’s younger adults. These findings support the validity of the two continua model in adult development.
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                Contributors
                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
                plos
                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                7 June 2017
                2017
                : 12
                : 6
                : e0178359
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
                [2 ]Chief Executive Office, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
                University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", ITALY
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                • Conceptualization: LP MS SAC.

                • Data curation: LP QY SC.

                • Formal analysis: QY EA.

                • Funding acquisition: SAC.

                • Investigation: JAV LP SC.

                • Methodology: QY EA LP.

                • Project administration: LP SC MS.

                • Resources: LP SAC MS.

                • Software: QY EA.

                • Supervision: MS SAC.

                • Validation: LP EA MS.

                • Visualization: LP.

                • Writing – original draft: LP.

                • Writing – review & editing: LP QY JAV SC EA HCC SAC MS.

                Article
                PONE-D-16-42734
                10.1371/journal.pone.0178359
                5462373
                28591203
                27156bbd-f59e-4fcc-b9c8-a91295d2c337
                © 2017 Picco et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 8 November 2016
                : 11 May 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 5, Pages: 16
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001349, National Medical Research Council;
                Award ID: NMRC/CG/004/2013
                Award Recipient :
                This research is supported by the Singapore Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council under the Centre Grant Programme (Grant No.: NMRC/CG/004/2013) to SAC. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
                Categories
                Research Article
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Mental Health and Psychiatry
                Social Sciences
                Political Science
                Labor Studies
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Health Care
                Health Care Providers
                Nurses
                People and Places
                Population Groupings
                Professions
                Nurses
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Health Care
                Health Care Providers
                Allied Health Care Professionals
                People and Places
                Population Groupings
                Ethnicities
                Chinese People
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Public and Occupational Health
                Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
                People and places
                Population groupings
                Ethnicities
                Ethnic Malays
                People and Places
                Population Groupings
                Ethnicities
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                Data is not available for online access, however readers who wish to gain access to the data can write to the senior author Dr Mythily Subramaniam at mythily@ 123456imh.com.sg with their requests. Access can be granted subject to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the research collaborative agreement guidelines. This is a requirement mandated for this research study by our IRB and funders.

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