Designing for mental wellbeing: towards a more holistic approach in the treatment and prevention of mental illness
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..., general mental health or wellbeing [188]); and practices to support mental health more broadly (e....
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...Under-exploration in these areas may partly be reflective of a lesser understanding of ‘positive mental health’ concepts [188], and a lack of available data [173]....
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...Another avenue for future work is to investigate longer term depression and anxiety outcomes, and to focus more on wellbeing, which is often overlooked in technology evaluations [77]....
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...[9] Baumeister, R.F., and Leary, M.R. 1995....
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...Baumeister and Leary [9] for example highlight a strong connection between belongingness and a person’s general health and mental wellbeing....
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...In 2000, Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi popularized the term Positive Psychology [67] as the study of the conditions and processes that contribute to human ‘flourishing’ with a focus on what makes life worth living and determining the conditions for human wellbeing....
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...In 2000, Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi popularized the term Positive Psychology [67] as the study of the conditions and processes that...
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...Instead, it proposes that experiences of wellbeing are gained by leading a ‘virtuous’ life, whereby the person attains a sense of self and lives in accordance with their true self [26][62]....
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...It needs to be cultivated through an activity that is controlled by the person and that sets challenges which are neither too simple nor too difficult to achieve [26]....
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...Within the hedonic perspective exists a predominant view that wellbeing is constructed from the difference between pleasures versus displeasures, and how satisfied one feels with life [26]....
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...The assumption that all individuals have a natural tendency for personal growth (unless hindered due to social-environmental factors) has also been embraced in Ryan and Deci’s [62] selfdetermination theory, which suggests that for personal growth three universal psychological needs have to be fulfilled: autonomy, feeling that one can initiate one’s own behavior and act in one’s own interest; competence, feeling effective in one’s interactions with others and experiencing opportunities for expressing one’s capabilities; and relatedness, feeling connected to others and feeling cared for....
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...Hobbes, DeSade) that regards the pursuit and experience of a maximum of pleasures as the goal of life, with happiness resulting from the accumulation of hedonic moments [62]....
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...The literature on SWB further distinguishes two main and closely interwoven perspectives: the hedonic perspective equates wellbeing with positive ‘feelings’ towards life (emotional wellbeing); and the eudemonic perspective considers wellbeing in terms of a person’s level of ‘functioning’ in life, including the extent to which they can realize their true potential (psychological wellbeing) and their social needs (social wellbeing) [48][62]....
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...Instead, it proposes that experiences of wellbeing are gained by leading a ‘virtuous’ life, whereby the person attains a sense of self and lives in accordance with their true self [26][62]....
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...The assumption that all individuals have a natural tendency for personal growth (unless hindered due to social-environmental factors) has also been embraced in Ryan and Deci’s [62] selfdetermination theory, which suggests that for personal growth three universal psychological needs have to be fulfilled: autonomy, feeling that one can initiate one’s own behavior and act...
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