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These included: a) behavioral indicators such as eating, sleeping, and working well; being able to master stage-salient challenges and having effective interpersonal relationships; and b) psychological indicators, such as having a sense of purpose and belonging, reasonable control over one's destiny, a basic security, and satisfaction with oneself and one's existence. In that article, I spoke of wellness as a "more-or-less," rather than "either-or," state. I made no case either for its once-and-forever permanence, or for the sanctity of the specific defining components I had listed.
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The downside of this emergent definitional trend, however, resides in several of its latent assumptions, and the restrictive focus and set of practices that flow from such assumptions. The preceding points will be further fleshed out later in the chapter. , disease prevention) and has, in practice, sent wellness-promotion out to pasture as the semi-muddle-minded fantasy of dreamers. Indeed, one recent analysis (Dinges, 1994) of an annotated bibliography of 1,326 primary prevention articles (Trickett, Dahiyat, & Selby, 1994) reported that 98% of the included items dealt with disease prevention and only 2% with mental health promotion or wellness.