Orth Zaida, Moosajee Faranha, Van Wyk Brian
School of Public Health, Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
Division for Postgraduate Studies, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
Front Psychol. 2022 Mar 9;13:835601. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.835601. eCollection 2022.
Mental health is critical to the healthy development of adolescents. However, mental health encompasses more than the absence of mental illness; and should include indicators of mental wellness. A critical review of available mental wellness instruments for adolescents were conducted to identify operational definitions of mental wellness concepts for this population group.
A systematic review of literature published between 2000 and 2020 was done to identify mental wellness instruments for adolescent populations. The review followed the PRISMA operational steps.
We identified 2,543 articles from the search strategy and screened titles and abstracts for eligibility. After appraisal, 97 studies were included in the qualitative synthesis; of which, 79 mental wellness instruments were identified. Most studies did not provide a definition for mental wellness. We identified thirteen mental wellness concepts from 97 studies, namely: , and
The review reflected previous research identifying a lack of consensus around the definitions of mental health, mental wellness, and mental wellbeing. This has implications for developing instruments for adolescents that adequately measure these constructs. Most of the instruments identified in the review were predominantly English and from developed countries. This indicates a need for instrument that are explicitly conceptualised and operationalised for adolescents in all their varied contexts.
心理健康对青少年的健康发展至关重要。然而，心理健康所涵盖的内容不仅仅是没有精神疾病；还应包括心理安康的指标。对现有的青少年心理安康测评工具进行了批判性综述，以确定该人群心理安康概念的操作性定义。
对2000年至2020年间发表的文献进行系统综述，以确定针对青少年人群的心理安康测评工具。该综述遵循PRISMA操作步骤。
通过检索策略我们识别出2543篇文章，并对标题和摘要进行了合格性筛选。经过评估，97项研究被纳入定性综合分析；其中，识别出79种心理安康测评工具。大多数研究没有给出心理安康的定义。我们从97项研究中识别出13个心理安康概念，即：，以及
该综述反映了以往研究中发现的在心理健康、心理安康和心理幸福感的定义方面缺乏共识的情况。这对开发能够充分测量这些概念的青少年测评工具具有启示意义。综述中识别出的大多数测评工具主要是英文的且来自发达国家。这表明需要有针对不同背景下青少年明确概念化和操作化的测评工具。
