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🎯 Main Points

Moving Toward Balanced Conceptualizations

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

🔑 Key Definitions

Complete Mental Health: Both presence of well-being AND absence of illness ⚖️
Flourishing: High well-being + Low mental illness 🌸
Languishing: Low well-being + Low mental illness (incomplete mental health) 😐

👤 Important Figures

  • Keyes (2002) - Complete Mental Health Model 📊

📊 Keyes' Mental Health Model

  • High well-being + Low illness = FLOURISHING 🌸
  • Low well-being + Low illness = LANGUISHING 😐
  • High well-being + High illness = Struggling 💪😰
  • Low well-being + High illness = Floundering 😔💔

😢 Functions of Negative Emotions

  • Fear: Protection from danger 🛡️
  • Anger: Signals boundary violations ⚖️
  • Sadness: Facilitates reflection 💭
  • Guilt: Promotes moral behavior 🤝

🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth

  • Enhanced appreciation 🙏
  • Improved relationships 🤝
  • Personal strength 💪
  • New possibilities 🔮
  • Spiritual development 🙏

💡 Exam Tips

  • FLOURISHING = high well-being + low illness 🌸
  • LANGUISHING = low well-being + low illness 😐
  • Negative emotions SERVE important functions ✅
  • Avoid TOXIC POSITIVITY 😊❌😢