Stones M J, Kozma A
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1980;11(4):269-81. doi: 10.2190/43W5-P9WE-3V42-5RJ0.
A major intention of the article was to delineate and clarify issues related to the usage and conceptualization of mental health constructs commonly utilized by gerontologists. Conclusions were drawn to the effect that (a) meanings of mental health constructs cluster differently depending on the type of analysis employed, (b) happiness may be considered the most apposite representative of the array of mental health constructs employed by gerontologists, (c) happiness has been conceptualized either as containing current affect and dispostional components or current affect components only, (d) contemporary models of happiness favour neither the expansionist nor contractionist positions as a means of attaining happiness and (e) questions as to the relative contributions to happiness of the affective and dispositional components represents an important problem for future research. A final intention of the article was to provide a speculative reconceptualization of the happiness construct.
本文的一个主要目的是描绘和澄清与老年医学家常用的心理健康概念的使用和概念化相关的问题。得出的结论是：(a) 心理健康概念的含义根据所采用的分析类型而有不同的聚类；(b) 幸福可能被认为是老年医学家所采用的一系列心理健康概念中最合适的代表；(c) 幸福被概念化为既包含当前情感和性格成分，也可以仅包含当前情感成分；(d) 当代幸福模型既不倾向于扩张主义立场也不倾向于收缩主义立场作为获得幸福的手段；(e) 情感和性格成分对幸福的相对贡献问题是未来研究的一个重要问题。本文的最后一个目的是对幸福概念进行推测性的重新概念化。
