BACKGROUND Mental health outcomes among HIV-positive gay men are generally poorer than in the broader population. However, not all men in this population experience mental health problems. Although much is known about factors associated with depression and anxiety among HIV-positive gay men, little is known about factors associated with positive mental health. Such knowledge can be useful for o...

Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and outcomes, certainly including mental and physical health, but also encompassing happiness and life satisfaction, meanin...

Diener and colleagues (2010) created concise assessment tools to study flourishing and Positive and Negative emotions. The two scales had been validated with English-speaking and German-speaking participants. Nevertheless, its applicability for Chinese is not well established. The current study validated the two scales in traditional Chinese, using a randomly selected community sample. Both the...

Food and sustainability are intrinsically linked, yet the majority of food education in Republic Ireland focuses solely on health, this form fails to address complicated nature modern system its negative impact biodiversity. Using capabilities approach as a framework, article argues that purpose should be provide students with ability lead flourishing life. The is used evaluate creation impleme...

Positive accomplishment is defined as the development of individual potential through striving for and achieving meaningful outcomes. Positive accomplishment involves the capacity to work towards meaningful goals, the motivation to persist despite challenges and setbacks, and the achievement of competence and success in important life domains. Seligman (2011) defines positive education as tradi...

The Resilience Scale (RS) is an instrument developed by Wagnild and Young (1993) to access resilience levels. This study aims to explore the construct validity of the two existing versions of the RS. In a Portuguese sample of adolescents from public schools (n=180),, who participated in a Portuguese study about prevention of adolescent depression, both versions were assessed for dimensionality,...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. South Korea's medical education history is intertwined with its explosive economic growth. In the 1980s, the Korean government opened the medical education industry to the private sector. The desired results for the schools were twofold: (1) to meet the need...

Lai Nai Ming MBBS (Hons) [Queensland],MRCP(Paeds) [UK], MRCPCH, AM [Mal] (corresponding author) neonatal Intensive Care Unit University of Malaya Medical Centre, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia tel: +60379492065 Fax: +60379494704 email: [email protected]. my Evidence-based medicine (EBM) was introduced to provide an organised approach to clinicians and other health care providers in using research t...

In this essay, Doret J. de Ruyter defends the claim that parents as well as professional educators need to impart ideals to children in order to realize their wish that children become happy and flourishing adults. The argument consists of two parts. First, de Ruyter shows how ideals are important to construing the meaning of objective goods. Second, she contends that educating children with id...