Positive mental health (PMH) has been shown to be of great importance to adaptive functioning. The aim of this article is to review the literature on PMH as assessed with the PMH-Scale. A literature search identified 85 articles that were published between 2007 and 2023 on PMH as assessed with the PMH-Scale. The identified articles focus on seven thematic areas: (1) psychometric studies; (2) sociodemographic factors; (3) mental disorders; (4) suicidality; (5) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); (6) influencing factors; (7) treatment. The findings support the predictive power of PMH regarding the cross-cultural course of psychopathology/mental disorders as well as health-related behavior and healthy development. Results on PMH are comparable across cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The significance of these findings is limited by the fact that only few studies involving experimental manipulation of PMH have been carried out. The present findings emphasize the importance of PMH at the individual and collective level, as well as the urgent need to make PMH part of the routine assessment of mental health in addition to variables of psychopathology.

积极的心理健康（PMH）已被证明对适应性功能非常重要。本文的目的是回顾有关用 PMH 量表评估的 PMH 的文献。文献检索确定了 2007 年至 2023 年间发表的 85 篇关于 PMH 的文章，并使用 PMH 量表进行了评估。确定的文章集中于七个主题领域：（1）心理测量研究； (2) 社会人口因素； （三）精神障碍； (4)有自杀倾向； (5) 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）； （六）影响因素； (7)治疗。研究结果支持 PMH 对精神病理学/精神障碍的跨文化过程以及健康相关行为和健康发展的预测能力。 PMH 的横断面和纵向研究结果具有可比性。这些发现的意义受到以下事实的限制：涉及 PMH 实验操作的研究很少。目前的研究结果强调了 PMH 在个人和集体层面的重要性，以及除了精神病理学变量之外，迫切需要将 PMH 纳入心理健康常规评估的一部分。