Mental health and psychosocial functioning in adolescence: An investigation among Indian students from Delhi.
While developmental studies predominantly investigated adolescents' mental illness and psychosocial maladjustment, the present research focused on positive mental health of Indian adolescents within the Mental Health Continuum model. Aims were to estimate their prevalence of mental health and to exa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Adolescence Vol. 39; pp. 59 - 70 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2015
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