Based on the Mental Health Continuum Short Form administered in the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey - Mental Health (CCHS-MH), the percentages of Canadians aged 15 or older classified as having flourishing, moderate or languishing mental health were 76.9%, 21.6% and 1.5%, respectively. Compared with estimates for other countries, a higher percentage of Canadians were flourishing. In accor...

Examining the entanglement of democracy and social justice in education relationship to mobility, this paper critiques individualising nature mobility policy discourse as inimical human flourishing a public good. The rhetoric which responsibilises individuals for their success, without due regard systemic changes needed enable societal barriers experienced disproportionately by some groups soci...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the associations among decent work (DW), capabilities and flourishing of employees in a South African context. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey was conducted with convenience sample ( N = 436) early childhood development practitioners from two provinces. demographic questionnaire, Decent Work Scale , Capability Set for Questionnaire Flo...

The relationship between positive mental health and well-being was examined in 604 North Indian high school and secondary high school going children aged 11–18 years. The study employed various scales such as Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF; Keyes, 2005), Scale of Positive and Negative Experiences (SPANE) and Flourishing Scale (FS; Diener et al., 2010), World Health Organization Qual...

OBJECTIVES We investigated whether positive mental health predicts all-cause mortality. METHODS Data were from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study (n = 3032), which at baseline in 1995 measured positive mental health (flourishing and not) and past-year mental illness (major depressive episode, panic attacks, and generalized anxiety disorders), and linked respondents with National D...