BACKGROUND: Positive mental health (PMH) is an integral and essential component of health that encompasses emotional, psychological and social well-being. The Keyes' two continua model of mental health and illness posits that mental health status is not merely the absence of mental health problems, and it can be enhanced regardless of a diagnosis of @entity1032 . The present study hypothesized that mentally ill @entity1 with higher levels of PMH would be associated with better life satisfaction and general functioning. METHODS: 218 outpatients with @entity1316 at a tertiary @entity146 hospital were recruited and administered the multidimensional Positive Mental Health instrument, which was validated and developed in Singapore to measure PMH. @entity308 and @entity148 severity were also assessed. Associations of positive mental health with life satisfaction and general functioning were investigated in linear regression models. RESULTS: PMH scores varied largely within @entity1 with @entity308 but did not differ statistically across the two diagnoses, except for emotional support. PMH was associated with both life satisfaction and general functioning with little evidence of confounding by sociodemographic and clinical status. LIMITATIONS: The cross-sectional design of the study could not examine causal relationships. Findings may be restrictive to treatment-seeking population with specific @entity1316 . CONCLUSION: Our study provides evidence to support the notion that a good mental health state is not simply the absence of a @entity146 . Mentally ill @entity1 can also have high levels of PMH that possibly have a moderating or mediating effect on the relationship between @entity1 ' clinical symptoms and life satisfaction or general functioning.

Positive mental health in outpatients with XXXX : Associations with life satisfaction and general functioning.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity1032 :: ('MESH:D008607', 'Disease') :: ['mental illness'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['Depression', 'depressive and anxiety disorders'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['psychiatric', 'mental disorder'] @entity1316 :: ('MESH:D019964', 'Disease') :: ['affective disorders'] @entity148 :: ('MESH:D001008', 'Disease') :: ['anxiety']
@entity1316 :: (MESH:D019964,Disease) :: ['affective disorders']
