PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Observational Error, Kelvin, Discriminant Validity
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You might come away thinking that to be mentally healthy means you do not have a diagnosable mental disorder or mental disability. Mental health, as you may propose, is not simply the absence of mental illness but something much more positive. You might imagine a mentally healthy person as happy, thriving, and flourishing in life. You reason: height and weight are 2 distinct physical features of people, and perhaps mental health and mental illness are 2 distinct psychological features of people. Your task is to understand the meaning of mental health. Excited by these questions, you start to think more formally about how to cast your ideas into a psychological theory. A psychological theory is important because it will provide a conceptual framework for your study. It specifies the conceptual meaning of key terms and it identifies how variables are to be measured or operationalized.
