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What does it mean to be “strengths-based” or to be a “strengths-based practitioner?” These are diffuse areas that are generic and ill-defined. Part of the confusion arises from the customary default of practitioners and leaders across many cultures to ...
Ryan M. Niemiec, Ruth Pearce
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The study was designed to explore the relationships among character strengths, strengths use, future self-continuity and subjective well-being. A total of 225 undergraduates completed paper-and-pencil questionnaires assessing character strengths ...
Yonghong Zhang, Mengyan Chen
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A growing body of research demonstrates the relevance of character strengths for flourishing in general, but also for important outcomes across different life domains (e.g., work performance and relationship satisfaction).
Lisa Wagner +2 more
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Character Strengths Scale-Brief: initial psychometric studies
Objective Character strengths are positive human characteristics that indicate a happy and successful life. The objective was to select items for the Character Strengths Scale-Brief instrument and to identify its psychometric properties.
Helder Henrique Viana Batista +1 more
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHARACTER STRENGTHS AND PERSONALITY
The purpose of this narrative literature review article was to define the variables of character and personality strengths, within the field of positive psychology, and to investigate the relationship established between them. For this purpose, different
Analía Verónica Caramellino +2 more
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The Character Strengths Response: An Urgent Call to Action
A model on the role of character strengths in individual, collective, and species success is proffered. It is derived from viewing character strengths from a species perspective as opposed to one of individual differences/personality psychology.
Neal H. Mayerson
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What are character strengths good for? A diary study on character strengths enactment [PDF]
While character strengths are expected to contribute to the “good life,” they also may serve specific purposes (e.g., the strength of curiosity should support the acquisition and use of knowledge). This study explored the potential functions of character strengths from a within-person perspective.
Fabian Gander +3 more
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Assessment of character strengths
Character strengths are among the most frequently studied research topics in positive psychology (Donaldson et al., 2015). This chapter briefly introduces the VIA classification of character strengths and virtues (Peterson & Seligman, 2004) and discusses some general considerations when assessing character strengths.
Lisa Wagner, Willibald Ruch
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Character strengths-based interventions are effective for increasing well-being. However, whether such interventions also change character strengths has never been tested. In Study 1, we studied the effects of seven different variants of character strengths-based interventions on well-being, ill-being, and character strengths traits and states (i.e ...
Gander, Fabian +2 more
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Background Nurses displayed low levels of subjective well-being and high turnover intention. How to enhance the subjective well-being and decrease the turnover rate of nurses is of great importance.
Xiaotong Ding +4 more
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