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The structure of psychological well-being revisited.
  • C. RyffC. Keyes
  • Psychology
    Journal of personality and social psychology
  • 1995
TLDR
Comparisons with other frequently used indicators demonstrated that the latter neglect key aspects of positive functioning emphasized in theories of health and well-being, while the proposed 6-factor model was superior in fit over single-factor and other artifactual models.
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The mental health continuum: from languishing to flourishing in life.
  • C. Keyes
  • Psychology
    Journal of health and social behavior
  • 1 June 2002
TLDR
The descriptive epidemiology revealed that males, older adults, more educated individuals, and married adults were more likely to be mentally healthy and flourishing and moderate mental health were associated with superior profiles of psychosocial functioning.
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Mental illness and/or mental health? Investigating axioms of the complete state model of health.
  • C. Keyes
  • Psychology, Medicine
    Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
  • 1 June 2005
TLDR
Confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesis that measures of mental health (i.e., emotional, psychological, and social well-being) and mental illness constitute separate correlated unipolar dimensions.
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Social well-being.
The proposal of five dimensions of social well-being, social integration, social contribution, social coherence, social actualization, and social acceptance, is theoretically substantiated. The…
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Promoting and protecting mental health as flourishing: a complementary strategy for improving national mental health.
  • C. Keyes
  • Psychology, Medicine
    The American psychologist
  • 2007
TLDR
The conception and diagnosis of the mental health continuum, the findings supporting the two continua model of mental health and illness, and the benefits of flourishing to individuals and society are summarized.
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Optimizing well-being: the empirical encounter of two traditions.
TLDR
The probability of optimal well-being (high SWB and PWB) increased as age, education, extraversion, and conscientiousness increased and as neuroticism decreased; adults with higher SWB than PWB were younger, had more education, and showed more openness to experience.
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Evaluation of the mental health continuum-short form (MHC-SF) in setswana-speaking South Africans.
TLDR
Factor analysis revealed that the mental health continuum-short form (MHC-SF) replicated the three-factor structure of emotional, psychological and social well-being found in US samples, and confirmed the hypothesized two-continua model of mental health and mental illness found in the USA.
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Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF).
TLDR
Although related to mental illness, positive mental health is a distinct indicator of mental well-being that is reliably assessed with the MHC-SF, and this article draws on data of the LISS panel of CentERdata, a representative panel for Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences.
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Mental health in adolescence: is America's youth flourishing?
  • C. Keyes
  • Psychology, Medicine
    The American journal of orthopsychiatry
  • 1 July 2006
TLDR
Data from the second wave of the Child Development Supplement (CDS-II) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), in which a comprehensive set of subjective well-being items were administered, suggest the importance of positive mental health in future research on adolescent development.
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Well-being in the workplace and its relationship to business outcomes: A review of the Gallup studies.
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