Subjective health in the field of psychology and psychiatry

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Subjective health is a self-assessment of human condition and measure of health — has proven itself in research as a predictor of mortality and objective health. This indicator is most widely used by a variety of disciplines in the context quality of life and health studies. Along with this, the comprehension of this construct is still complicated and disputed. In psychiatry, the subjective understanding of health is reduced to ideas about development and course of mental illness. There is evidence of a culturally specific understanding of health by representatives of different nationalities. The article raises the problem of the influence of psychiatric diagnosis on self-assessment of health as a whole.

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Anna A. Lebedeva

National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Email: anna.alex.lebedeva@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5919-5338
SPIN-code: 4913-6506
Scopus Author ID: 57194632184
ResearcherId: I-3922-2015

PhD in psychology, Senior Research Fellow, International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation

Russian Federation, 109074, 4 Slavyanskaya Square, Building 2, room 206

Vasily Yu. Kostenko

National Research University Higher School of Economics

Email: vasily.kostenko@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5612-3857
SPIN-code: 4284-5461
Scopus Author ID: 57191710196
ResearcherId: K-9724-2015
https://www.hse.ru/staff/vasily.kostenko

PhD in psychology, Research Fellow, International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation

Russian Federation, 109074, 4 Slavyanskaya Square, Building 2, room 206

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