General Well-Being Schedule

Leading on from this looking at the case study of Renee (Open University, 2014a) by using the Dynamic Model of Wellbeing I was able to understand Renee’s situation with a lot more clarity of her situation. Renee is a single mother with four children and also lives with her eighty-year-old mother who has ill health. Renee works but with poor pay and barely enough income to support her family. By using the guidelines of the model I was able to establish that she had poor external conditions with her work and income also her living standards were poor within her home. Her personal resources such as her health suffered due to her external conditions, her optimism was low and so was her self-esteem, being behind with bills and ill affording the

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Happiness is not the only indicator of psychological wellbeing. There are some others such as life satisfaction (e.g. Neugarten, Havighurst, &Tobin, 1961; Wood; Wylie, & Sheator, 1969), emotional and mental health , or subjective wellbeing (Kozma, Stones, & McNeil, 1991). These concepts have been used synonymously with psychological wellbeing, however, even though they are related with psychological wellbeing, they are not identical and should not define psychological wellbeing (Stull, 1987).

To improve mental health inequities and cater to disparaged groups, researchers must utilize measurements to determine the mental health of a population. Van Lente et al. (2011) analyzed results from the third National Survey of Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition 2007, an interview based study

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a 21-item self-reporting questionnaire for evaluating the severity of depression in normal and psychiatric populations. Ferinde define BID as validated measure that has been instrumental in leading numerous diagnoses due to its most revision. (Farinde, 2013). There are different types of BIDs. The BDI-II does not rely on any particular theory of depression and the questionnaire has been translated into several languages. A shorter version of the questionnaire, the BDI Fast Screen for Medical Patients (BDI-FS), is available for primary care use. That version contains seven self-reported items each corresponding to a major depressive symptom in the preceding 2 weeks. The questionnaire was developed from clinical observations of attitudes and symptoms occurring frequently in depressed psychiatric patients and infrequently in non-depressed psychiatric patients. As it is stated in Occupational medicine, Twenty-one questionnaire is commonly self-administered were consolidated from those observations, 0–3 for severity. Self-administration takes 5–10 min and the recall period for the BDI-II is 2 weeks for (major depressive symptoms), in occupational health, it can be used as a screening tool to detect depression in normal populations or as a tool to assess symptom severity in clinical populations. The BDI-II contains 21 items on a 4-point scale

Scientific journals follow critical reading guidelines that establish your credibility. Elizabeth N. Burris and Shevaun D Neupert from North Carolina State University explore this topic in relation to Mood Repair and Daily stressors. In their article Mood Management: Mood Repair and Daily Stressors Correlate with Daily Affect they are looking for whether individual differences in mood repair would predict emotional reactivity to daily stressors. In this study Elizabeth N. Burris and Shevaun D. Neupert focus on a sample of 43 community dwelling older adults who were part of a larger study called Anticipatory coping Every Day and completed a 8 day daily diary. When picking potential participants if they got a score greater than or equal to 8 on the Short Blessed Test, cognitive impairment screening, were admitted into the study. This study used different tasks to measure the Daily Positive and Negative Affect and Daily Stressors. In conclusion this study found that there was a increase in the amount of negative

The remainder of this report will include a background on general human well being, a description of each indicator used, the results of the HWI, and finally, an evaluation of its overall effectiveness.

The premise of the article: Universal Happiness? Cross-Cultural Measurement Invariance of Scales Assessing Positive Mental Health, is that positive mental health compliments the emotional security and the psychosocial aspects of a person’s life into a single paradigm. The paradigm shows that people who have a good mental health status see themselves as having a distinct direction in their life and that their life has more purpose than those who allow their mental health to deteriorate. Along with direction and purpose people with a good mental health status also have lasting relationships, are more accepting of whom they are, and exhibit a more positive affect. Bieda et al (2016) illustrates this by utilizing the Positive Mental Health Scale,

The choices or statements comprised in each item are listed in order of increasing severity. Within each of the 21 items, test takers are instructed to choose the alternative that best describes the way they have been feeling during the past week, including the day they are taking the test (BDI, 1993). In contrast to the original BDI which measured a present state (i.e.: asking patients to rate themselves on how they feel "right now"), the revised version assesses a more persistent trait (BDI, 1993). The 21 symptoms and attitudes assessed in the test include: 1. Mood; 2. Pessimism; 3. Sense of Failure; 4. Self-dissatisfaction; 5. Guilt; 6. Punishment; 7. Self-dislike; 8.Self-accusations; 9. Suicidal Ideas; 10. Crying; 11: Irritability; 12. Social withdrawal; 13. Indecisiveness; 14. Body image Change; 15. Work Difficulty; 16. Insomnia; 17. Fatigability; 18. Loss of Appetite; 19. Weight Loss; 20. Somatic Preoccupation; and 21. Loss of Libido (BDI, 1993). (see appendix)

Mental health is considered a critical concern in our society; the number of people affected every year is 1 in 10 adults and children who report experiencing problems in functioning properly at work, school , or with family and friends. Numerous studies have showed the existence of a positive correlation between positive social support and optimal mental health. An observational study conducted by tried to find the effect of an optimist spouse on the well-being of his significant partner and demonstrated the relationship between ideal support and emotional well-being. The longitudinal study lasted for four years and participants were tracked to report results related to their “physical functioning, self-rated health, and number of chronic illnesses”. The case research study included 42 subjects a number of 21 couples from the Health and Retirement Study group, participants were among age 53-97, the Mean was 68.51 and standard deviation 8.68. The study included different ethnicities and

Taking part in the varying Happiness Assessment surveys was insightful in many ways. My results showed that I am typically in alignment with the rest of the population on the happiness scale. Upon examining the overall graphed data, I found that the spread of the distributions were close to being symmetrical and contained no outliers. Most of my scores gave the interpretation that I was just slightly above average compared to others on the well-being scale. However, my general satisfaction with life interpretation was slightly below average. I found that the results of each test were relatively consistent with each other and provided fairly accurate feedback, however, the use of one test alone would not allow someone to make an accurate assessment.

Larsen and Prizmic argued that the balance of positive and negative affect (the Losada ratio) is a key factor in subjective well-being and in defining whether a person flourishes. Larsen and Prizmic discussed work by several authors (e.g. Fredrickson and Losada, 2005; Gottman, 1994) which suggested that to maintain an optimal level of emotional well-being and positive health, individuals need to experience approximately three times more positive than negative affect. Given thus background the conducted a study to address three questions: First, is there evidence that a specific positivity ratio distinguishes individuals with different mental health status and especially flourishing from non-flourishing individuals? Second, are there are differences in the positivity ratio when daily affect data are used? Third, does the proposed critical positivity ratio of 2.9 discriminate individuals with different mental health status equally well across the adult lifespan? (“The Ratio between Positive and Negative Affect and Flourishing Mental Health across

Due to the increase in research on subjective wellbeing throughout the 1980’s, and its relation to personality, the Satisfaction with Life Scales (1993) were developed (Diener, Emmons, Larson & Griffin, 1985). Life satisfaction refers to a

According to the wellbeing assessment results, the assessment indicated that I am struggling (moderate or inconsistent) with my wellbeing as the five elements showed all my scores under 6. I received a score of 5 on career wellbeing, a score of 6 on social wellbeing, a score of 3 on financial wellbeing, a score of 4 on physical wellbeing, and score of 3 on community wellbeing. I was honestly shocked and surprised when I read through the descriptions of the elements because it all described areas that I am struggling at this point in my life. As I reflected on the results of this assessment, it helped me to think about the overarching problem that hinders me from having a thriving life which is the financial struggles. I honestly think that financial struggles have negatively affected the overall wellbeing as it impacted and shaped the rest of the four elements.

These days, the wellbeing checking in provincial division is a remarkable exploration region. All through the world heaps of scientists and wellbeing organizations manage wellbeing observing. The gathered data sets around a patient helps the specialists in the examination of wellbeing state changes. As of now, there are numerous wellbeing