TY - JOUR
AU1 - Wang, Xinqiang
AU2 - Zhang, Dajun
AU3 - Wang, Jinliang
AU4 - 
AB - Psychology 2011. Vol.2, No.8, 767-772 Copyright © 2011 SciRes. DOI:10.4236/psych.2011.28117 Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health: Surpass the Traditional Mental Health Model Xinqiang Wang, Dajun Zhang , Jinliang Wang Research Center of Mental Health Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. Email: zhangdj@swu.edu.cn th th nd Received August 13 , 2011; revised September 17 , 2011; accepted October 22 , 2011. Aiming at the limitations of traditional mental health model, the dual-factor model of mental health (DFM) was proposed as a new idea under the background of positive psychology trend. According to the DFM, mental health is a complete state; subjective well-being should be included into the mental health evaluation system as a positive indictor; in terms of prevention and intervention, the DFM asserted that the decrease of symptoms is only the first step of intervention, and the improvement of subjective well-being should be followed, in order to achieve the complete mental health states and reduce the recurrence of illness. Finally, this paper put forward evaluation on DFM and its future research directions. Keywords: Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health, Subjective Well-Being, Psychopathology, Psychological Suzhi Introduction ferred by-product of “no mental illness” (Suldo, & Shaffer, 2008). Mental health and mental illness are deemed 
TI - Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health: Surpass the Traditional Mental Health Model
JF - Psychology
DO - 10.4236/psych.2011.28117
DA - 2011-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/dual-factor-model-of-mental-health-surpass-the-traditional-mental-dmcxnrLPLI
DP - DeepDyve
ER -