2. Mental Health
• State of well-being in which the individual
realizes his/her own abilities, can cope with
the normal stresses of life, can work
productively and fruitfully, and is able to make
a contribution to his/her community
3. Mental and Emotional Health
• Ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to
and manage emotions, and deal with the
demands and challenges you meet in life.
4. Characteristics of Good
Mental/Emotional Health
• Positive Self-esteem – self-confidence
• Sense of Belonging – emotional attachment to
friends, teachers, and other people
• Sense of Purpose – recognizing your own
value and importance
• Positive Outlook – seeing the bright side and
having hope about life
• Autonomy – confidence to make responsible
and safe decisions
6. Importance of Mental/Emotional
Health
• Handle a wide variety of feelings on situations
• Make wise choices that demonstrate both
strong values and responsible behavior
7. Personality
• A complex set of characteristics that makes
you unique
• Determine how you will react in a certain
situation
• Includes an individual emotional make-
up, attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors
• Influenced by: heredity and environment
8. Type A Personality
• Exaggerated sense of time urgency
• Competitiveness
• Multitasking
• The Price for Over Achievement
• Prone to high risk of CHD – this is a very strong
link
9. Type B Personality
• Patient
• Relaxes easily
• Easy-going, mellow
• May avoid confrontation
• Not quick to anger
• They are often successful in their professions
10. Type C Personality
• Denial and suppression of emotions, in particular anger
• Pathological niceness
• Avoidance of conflicts
• Exaggerated social desirability
• Harmonizing behavior
• Over-compliance
• Over-patience
• High rationality
• Rigid control of emotional expression (anti-
emotionality)
• Prone to cancer
11. Type D Personality
• Distressed
• Tendency towards negative affectivity (worry,
irritability, gloom)
• Social inhibition (reticence and lack of self-
assurance)
