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Childhood trauma and suicidal ideation among Chinese adolescents: The mediating effects of character strengths and perceived stress.

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2022
WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Prior research has demonstrated that childhood trauma can increase adolescents' suicidal ideation, and perceived stress plays a mediating role in the relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' suicidal ideation.
Qing Fan, Qianwen Liu, Cuizhen Liu, Zhenhong Wang   +3 more
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Character strengths intervention for nurturing well-being among Pakistan's university students: A mixed-method study.

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2021
A strengths intervention, The Good Life, was developed for this study to augment Pakistani university students' PERMA-oriented well-being. The intervention strategy focused on all 24 strengths, observing strengths in others, and developing the lesser ...
Zane Asher Green
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Character strengths sustain mental health and post-traumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. A longitudinal analysis

Psychology and Health, 2021
Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has brought negative and positive changes in the general population, with some people experiencing post-traumatic growth after the first wave.
Nicole Casali, Tommaso Feraco, C. Meneghetti   +2 more
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Resilience in the face of interpersonal loss: The role of character strengths.

Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2021
The present study assessed whether seven specific character strengths may function to promote resilience or growth following interpersonal loss. A sample of 3710 adults, including 557 who experienced a recent interpersonal loss (defined as death of a ...
Tamar Blanchard, R. McGrath, Eranda Jayawickreme   +2 more
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Temporal associations between character strengths and civic action: A daily diary study

Journal of Positive Psychology, 2021
Positive youth development (PYD) models propose that character is an important antecedent to civic action, yet few studies have examined temporal links between character strengths and civic behavior.
Benjamin Oosterhoff, S. Whillock, Courtney S Tintzman, A. Poppler   +3 more
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Women are the Better Halves: Gender-based Variations in Virtues and Character Strengths

Journal of Human Values, 2021
Several feminists have been arguing on the superiority of women over men. This debate, instead of being biological, revolves around the gender roles and moral characteristics of humans, based on which women have been regarded better than men. The current
Waqar Husain
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Character Strengths in Israel

European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2012
The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) has been extensively used to assess character strengths. We adapted a Hebrew translation and analyzed its psychometric properties and associations with life satisfaction, personality traits, and positive and negative affect, and examined its factorial structure in 635 Israeli adults.
Hadassah Littman-Ovadia, Shiri Lavy
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Character strengths and virtues

2020
In this chapter, the author focuses on character strengths and virtues, and on the roles of both psychology and religion. In this the author particularly want to emphasise the role of open-mindedness, a virtue with which Ryan Williams is also concerned in this volume. He now find myself in academia researching mental health, psychology of religion and,
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Character strengths and clinical presentation

The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2017
AbstractThree models are described that attempt to integrate clinical diagnosis with the strengths-based model introduced by Peterson and Seligman (2004). The strengths as syndrome model proposes conceptualizing clinical diagnoses in terms of excesses and deficiencies in strengths.
Ashley Hall-Simmonds, Robert E. McGrath
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Mindfulness and character strengths

2018
Numerous studies have confirmed the robust relationship of mindfulness and character strengths with well-being independently, yet no many studies have looked at mindfulness in the framework of VIA classification. This set of two studies examined the relationships of mindfulness and character strengths in one cross-sectional study (Study 1: N = 1335 ...
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