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  • Kaivolainen, Viivi (2016)
    Traditionally mental health has been viewed as the absence of psychopathology. Quite new alternative view of mental health views mental health being composed of two separate dimensions: positive mental health and mental illness. Positive mental health is conceived of as emotional and psychological well-being, positive functioning and social well-being. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between positive mental health and mental illness. Furthermore, the connection of social support to positive mental health, and the moderating effects of social support to the relationship of mental health and mental illness were examined. The applied data is from population study of Lapland, Mielen tuki – project, in year 2012. The data was collected in mail questionnaire from 15-80 years old. Positive mental health was assessed with short version of Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being scale (SWEMWBS). Mental illness was assessed with GHQ-12 and social support with Oslo-3 scale. Variables were examined with regression analyses. Results showed that mental illness and positive mental health were moderately and reversed connected. Results also supported the separation of the two. Social support was autonomously related to better positive mental health and worse mental illness, but the moderating effect was not shown.