A combined approach that explores the biological and
psychological functioning of individuals and at the
same time locates the individual in an ecological context which is at the heart of an indigenous contribution to best practice.
These perspectives, which have informed distinct bodies of research in positive mental health, are less obvious in the literature relating to poor mental health, where items measuring affect (feeling happy / sad) are often combined with items measuring
psychological functioning (playing a useful part in things, making decisions)[4] in the
same scales, suggesting that poor mental health at least is accepted as involving limitations in both eudaimonic and hedonic well - being [5 — 7].