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📋 Summary

Balanced Mental Health ⚖️🌸

PSY409 - Positive Psychology

1. Keyes' Complete Mental Health Model ⚖️

  • Key Insight: Well-being + absence of illness = BOTH needed! ✅✅
  • Flourishing: High well-being + Low illness 🌸😊
  • Languishing: Low well-being + Low illness 😐🫥
  • Struggling: High well-being + High illness 💪😰
  • Floundering: Low well-being + High illness 😔💔

2. Functions of Negative Emotions 😢✅

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

3. Key Points 💡

  • Avoid TOXIC POSITIVITY 😊❌😢
  • Negative emotions have IMPORTANT functions! ✅
  • Post-traumatic GROWTH is possible 💪🌈