Prečo je nás teraz toľko psychicky nezdravých?

• Authors: Damián Kováč

Title variants

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Why do so many people suffer mental health problems?

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This study is based on the WHO’s conception of health as optimal physical, mental and social well-being. The paper outlines historical changes in the structure of illness incidence. General causes of rising illness incidence are: the lengthening of human life expectancy (illustrated by international statistics), inadequate diet (especially obesity), and physical inactivity (the ‘wellness’ movement). The increasing occurrence of mental illness is analyzed on the basis of several tendencies. These are: weaker adaptability of the human organism to abrupt changes in life; the mass disintegration of the human personality in industrial countries; the consequences for harmonious co-habitation of the enormous differentiation of personalities; individuals’ lifestyle in the so-called performance society; consequences of changes in traditional values.

Keywords

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health; incidence of disease; personality; pain; mental illnesses

• Publisher: University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Psychologie a její kontexty
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-93

Contributors

author

Damián Kováč

• Ústav experimentálnej psychológie, SAV, Dúbravská cesta 9, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic