Simply believing you can do something to improve mental health is linked with higher wellbeing

In our recent study, we asked 3,015 Danish adults to fill out a survey that asked questions about mental health …

Whether or not our respondents had actually taken action to improve their mental wellbeing – people who believed they could do something to keep mentally healthy tended to have higher mental wellbeing than those who didn’t have this belief.

About the Author: Growing Great Schools

Everyone thrives in a great school. Students are fully engaged and enjoy learning; relationships across the school are positive and respectful; creativity, diversity and critical thinking are valued and everyone feels they belong; it takes courage and commitment to create such a school. Growing Great Schools™ was established by Sue Roffey with partners around the world to promote ways for all schools to become great schools. Our partners are individuals, organisations and schools whose main purpose is education for wellbeing – to build healthy relationships, resilience and social and emotional development.

Simply believing you can do something to improve mental health is linked with higher wellbeing