Enhance Positive Mental Health for Undergraduate Students in The Pandemic Situation of The Coronavirus Disease (Covid – 19)
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This article aims to study the enhancement of positive mental health for undergraduate students in the epidemic situation of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) through reviews of papers, concepts, and theories related to positive mental health. Positive mental health doesn’t focus on mental illness but on studying the strength of mental health. The study can be summarized in 3 points as follow; 1) enhancing positive mental health through intrapersonal factors, relying on health care, sleep quality, the benefit of activities, exercise, and gratitude,
2) enhancing positive mental health through environmental factors, which is a factor that requires interaction with people 3) enhancing positive mental health through external factors which is a factor that the external environment has an effect on positive mental health such as the learning activities that affect the positive emotions in the learners.
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