... and negatively associated with psychiatric symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress (p <0.05). The GWGEIS identified 36 SNPs that interacted with university belonging including SNPs in PLCB1 (associated with long-term depression) to predict mental well-being (p <5e-8). Interestingly, daily hassles...

...) mental well-being. For mental distress, we used the 12-item GHQ mental distress scale, which measures common symptoms of anxiety and depressive disorder (α = 0.91) ( 25 ). All items were first summed and then averaged by the number of items, yielding a scale ranging from 1 to 4; higher scores...

... approach ( Meilstrup et al., 2022 ). Not-for-profit organizations offering ‘mentally healthy activities’ (those associated with improving mental well-being and meaningful social connection) are eligible to join the Partnership Program ( Anwar McHenry et al., 2012 ; Donovan and Anwar...

... and lymphatic filariasis (LF)-related disabilities experience higher levels of poor mental well-being compared with the general community. Mental health services are often not available. This study was conducted to provide proof of concept that basic psychological support for people affected by neglected...

... what we went through with our families, to shape change for others. Promoting mental well-being among people affected by NTDs is particularly important to us. In Liberia, we call the illnesses we lived through ‘embarrassments’ that often made us ‘feel bad’, which is how we described our feelings...

... and contexts ( Hernández-Torrano et al., 2020 ). In the focus of this study, the definition of mental well-being refers to ‘a state in which individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution...

...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Summary Our study examines the core concept of salutogenesis—sense of coherence (SOC)—in relation to off-job crafting (OJC) and mental well-being (MWB...

... were collected from participating employees: baseline (June-August 2018), mid-initiative (December 2018) and at 12-months (June-August 2019). Using validated scales where possible, questionnaires recorded: physical activity (MET-minutes/week), general health (0, poor-100, good), mental well-being...

... and cumulative stressors have longer-term prevailing effects on psychological distress. More studies are urged incorporating exposures across multiple levels or contexts to clarify the determinants of mental health during the retirement transition and more generally at older ages. Life event Mental well-being...

... According to these findings, it is crucial to analyze how the combination of job-related and life-related factors, namely overtime working hours and social interaction, respectively, affects the mental well-being of employees during the COVID-19 pandemic when both work style and lifestyle have been changing...

.... This study investigates the link between social isolation and mental well-being in later life, and how it varies across countries. Research Design and Methods We draw on a subset of older adults from Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic, a unique global online survey of 13,660...

... to the well-being of older people. That these effects stop when volunteering stops suggest a causal element to this relationship. Activity theory Ageing Mental well-being Retirement Role theory Rather than defining retirement as an inevitable withdrawal from society, loss of productive activity, and cause...

...Tomomi Fujimoto; Hitoshi Okamura breast cancer post-traumatic growth proactive coping mental well-being Although advances in medicine have improved the survival rate of cancer patients, receiving a cancer diagnosis can still be traumatic. The reason for this is that cancer patients experience...

... summary score and family harmony at wave 2. We selected self-rated health and the mental component summary score because they are well-established measures of physical and mental well-being. ^{5 , 18 , 19} We focused on family harmony as a central...

... are determinants of mental illness among worker populations. However, while the focus on negative aspects of mental health has generated important contributions to the development of workplace interventions, there is less evidence on the factors that support the positive aspects of mental well-being. This study...

... to GAD diagnosis compared with the relationship to self-reported anxiety symptoms. This study forms part of the SENSE-Cog multiphase research programme, funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme. SENSE-Cog aims to promote mental well-being in older adults with sensory and cognitive impairments...

... intervention. Control : No intervention, usual care or wait-list control. Outcomes measured : HRQOL and/or mental well-being measures. The PEDro scale scores extracted from the PEDro ( www.pedro.org.au ) were used to evaluate the quality of included studies. The PEDro scale uses a rating scale from 0...

... a smartphone-based tool (Urban Mind; www.urbanmind.info ) to examine how exposure to natural features within the built environment affects mental well-being in real time. The tool was used to monitor 108 individuals who completed 3013 assessments over a 1-week period. Significant immediate and lagged...

... Factors Mental Well-Being Physical Functioning Suicide is the fifteenth leading cause of death, accounting for at least 1.4% of all deaths worldwide [ 1 ]. Individuals experiencing chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) are an at-risk group for suicide as they are two to three times more likely to endorse...

... colitis). Data were analyzed with respect to established reference values of healthy controls. Results In the KIDSCREEN index a moderate impairment was only found for physical wellbeing due to disease activity. In contrast, mental well-being and social support were even better as compared to control...