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Exploration of the Positive and Negative Effects of the Community on Mental Health of Individuals


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1 Department of Psychology, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe
 

The paper gives a detailed evaluation and analysis into the factors and elements that affect mental wellbeing of individuals in community. It gives insight into the symbiotic relationship between individuals and their communities and how the bi-directional influence affects individuality and the experience of wellbeing through the community. The approach comes with an appreciation of both the cultural and physical environment’s interaction with the person’s individualized and internalized environment and how these intersect to give us personalized experiences, and their outcomes in mental wellbeing. Therefore, the illustration of both positive and negative ways strives to bring out a continuum evaluation to the silent aspects of society and individuality and how these should be taken into consideration in assessment of and evaluation of factors that affect people from within and outside their being.  


Keywords

Community, Mental Health, Interrelations, Environment, Culture, Individual.
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Authors

Sibangilizwe Maphosa
Department of Psychology, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe
Phillip Mutandwa
Department of Psychology, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe
Archibald T. Nyamayaro
Department of Psychology, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe
Ephraim Dera
Department of Psychology, Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe

Abstract


The paper gives a detailed evaluation and analysis into the factors and elements that affect mental wellbeing of individuals in community. It gives insight into the symbiotic relationship between individuals and their communities and how the bi-directional influence affects individuality and the experience of wellbeing through the community. The approach comes with an appreciation of both the cultural and physical environment’s interaction with the person’s individualized and internalized environment and how these intersect to give us personalized experiences, and their outcomes in mental wellbeing. Therefore, the illustration of both positive and negative ways strives to bring out a continuum evaluation to the silent aspects of society and individuality and how these should be taken into consideration in assessment of and evaluation of factors that affect people from within and outside their being.  


Keywords


Community, Mental Health, Interrelations, Environment, Culture, Individual.