| In the current field of mental health research,studies on the maintenance and promotion of mental health are often concentrated in the research of psychological counseling.In the research on the general public’s response to mental health problems,the research field focuses on mental health and professional behaviors in dealing with mental illness.Help.How the public maintains mental health related issues without professional help,except for some theoretical research studies,there are very few empirical studies involved.In this study,nine respondents who considered themselves to be mentally healthy were interviewed through a targeted sampling method to access their mental health maintenance experience.Through the qualitative research methods of grounded theory,the materials are coded and understood.The specific psychological behavior and personal characteristics of the individuals used to maintain mental health are explored from the interviewees’ mental health maintenance process,and the concept of mental health literacy is extracted.The coding of the interview materials found that there are 10 major categories of concepts involved in the maintenance of mental health.They are:Understanding of mental health,awareness of factors affecting mental health,attitudes to maintaining one’s own mental health,maintaining one’s own mental health behavior,maintaining personal qualities of one’s own mental health,obtaining support from the outside world,preserving the mental health of others,and maintaining the psychology of others healthy attitudes,acquisition of mental health behaviors,and impairing factors of mental health.Through discussing the influence of various internal and external factors in the process of mental health maintenance,and taking into account the meaning of the concept of mental health literacy,the final analysis of the results concluded that the connotation of mental health literacy should include:Understanding of mental health;2.Maintaining mental health behaviors;3.Maintaining personal qualities of mental health;4.Obtaining support from the outside world. |
