@article{ref1,
title="The relationship of level of positive mental health with current mental disorders in predicting suicidal behavior and academic impairment in college students",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2012",
author="Keyes, Corey L. M. and Eisenberg, Daniel and Perry, Geraldine S. and Dube, Shanta R. and Kroenke, Kurt and Dhingra, Satvinder S.",
volume="60",
number="2",
pages="126-133",
abstract="Abstract Objective: To investigate whether level of positive mental health complements mental illness in predicting students at risk for suicidal behavior and impaired academic performance. Participants: A sample of 5,689 college students participated in the 2007 Healthy Minds Study and completed an Internet survey that included the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form and the Patient Health Questionnaire screening scales for depression and anxiety disorders, questions about suicide ideation, plans, and attempts, and academic impairment. Results: Just under half (49.3%) of students were flourishing and did not screen positive for a mental disorder. Among students who did, and those who did not, screen for a mental disorder, suicidal behavior and impaired academic performance were lowest in those with flourishing, higher among those with moderate, and highest in those with languishing mental health. Conclusions: Positive mental health complements mental disorder screening in mental health surveillance and prediction of suicidal behavior and impairment of academic performance.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2011.608393",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2011.608393"
}