The structure of virtue: An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the virtues in action inventory of strengths

By Jessica Shryack, M. Steger, Robert Krueger, C. Kallie. 2010

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Research on virtues and character strengths has increased over the past decade. The virtues in action classification (VIA; Peterson & Seligman, 2004) is a comprehensive catalogue of 24 strengths organized under six broad-band virtues purported to be ubiquitous across time and culture. This study uses multiple criteria to determine the dimensionality of the VIA character strengths in an adult sample. Our results revealed that a three- or four-dimensional model best fit the data. We integrate our results with research from personality and positive psychology.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Character Strengths and Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Strengths-Based Approach from Positive Psychology (2017, unknown): “…and the VIA Inventory of Strengths–Youth Version (VIA-Youth) (www.viacharacter.org), have been developed and studied across cultures (McGrath, 2014; Park & Peterson, 2006b; Shryack, Steger, Krueger, & Kallie, 2010; K. Singh & Choubisa, 2010; van Eeden, Wissing, Dreyer, Park, & Peterson, 2008).”
Character strengths and wellbeing in adolescence: Structure and correlates of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Children (2012, methodology): “Instead they have found evidence of three- and four-factor (Shryack et al., 2010), four-factor (Brdar & Kashdan, 2010; Macdonald et al.”
Conceptualization and Measurement of Virtuous Leadership: Doing Well by Doing Good (2016, background): “, 2012); a broadband, socially desirable attribute valued across time and cultures (Shryack et al., 2010); universal, “perhaps grounded in biology through an evolutionary process that selected for these aspects of excellence as a means of solving the important tasks necessary for survival of the spe”
Integrating psychological and cultural perspectives on virtue: The hierarchical structure of character strengths (2015, methodology): “Shryack et al. (2010) tested several different models and concluded that the threefactor model was most reliable in a sample of twins from Minnesota administered the VIA-IS.”
Factor Structure of the Chinese Virtues Questionnaire (2012, methodology): “It also contained most strengths of self-assuredness in the model of Shryack et al. (2010).”
Middle School Transition from the Strengths Perspective: Young Adolescents’ Character Strengths, Subjective Well-Being, and School Adjustment (2013, methodology): “…has been subjected to a factor analysis process, four factors have been found and replicated across studies: temperance, intellectual, transcendence, and interpersonal strengths (Dahlsgaard 2005; Park and Peterson 2006a; Peterson and Park 2004; Peterson and Seligman 2004; Shryack et al. 2010).”