Moral competence and character strengths among adolescents: the development and validation of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth.

By Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson. Journal des adolescens, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Situational Strategies for Self-Control (2016, background): “It is no surprise that across the life span and around the world, people rate themselves lower in self-control than in kindness, fairness, honesty, gratitude, curiosity, and most other aspects of character (Park & Peterson, 2006; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006).”
Youth Life Satisfaction: A Review of the Literature (2009, background): “However, examination of descriptions of children aged seven and over revealed the expected correlation between LS and gratitude (Park and Peterson 2006a).”
Character strengths and well-being in Croatia: An empirical investigation of structure and correlates (2010, background): “For instance, a profile reflecting elevations in Interpersonal Strengths (''strengths of the heart " , Park & Peterson, 2006a) and Fortitude (''strengths of the mind " ) might be a particular potent combination.”
Character strengths in children and adolescents: Reliability and initial validity of the german values in action inventory of strengths for youth (German VIA-Youth) (2014, methodology): “The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (VIA-Youth; Park & Peterson, 2006b) does not measure virtues by summing up the strengths theoretically assigned to a virtue to a virtue-total-score but measures 24 character strengths by averaging the items (7-9) for each scale.”
Positive Feelings at School: On the Relationships Between Students’ Character Strengths, School-Related Affect, and School Functioning (2016, methodology): “…character strengths to be positively related to different aspects of subjective well-being, like global life satisfaction or happiness (e.g., Park and Peterson 2006; Ruch et al. 2014; Toner et al. 2012), and to general, domain-free positive affect, and negatively related to general,…”
Character Strengths: Research and Practice (2009, background): “It is already clear that while all strengths of character contribute to fulfillment, certain character strengths are more robustly linked to well-being and flourishing of young people than are others (Park & Peterson, 2006c).”
Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction (2007, background): “Details concerning the reliability and validity of the VIA-IS are presented elsewhere (e.g., Park & Peterson, 2006b; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2006; Peterson & Seligman, 2003, 2004).”
Dimensionality of the Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analyses (2010, background): “Given the empirical evidence on the psychometric adequacy of the CPYDS, researchers can design effective positive youth development programs and evaluate them rigorously in the future (Park & Peterson, 2006).”
What good are character strengths beyond subjective well-being? The contribution of the good character on self-reported health-oriented behavior, physical fitness, and the subjective health status (2013, background): “Earlier findings on the relations between strengths and indicators of subjective well-being were replicated (e.g. Buschor et al., in press; Gander et al., 2012; Park et al., 2004; Park & Peterson, 2006a, 2006b; Peterson et al., 2007; Ruch, Proyer et al., 2010).”
Good Character Is What We Look for in a Friend: Character Strengths Are Positively Related to Peer Acceptance and Friendship Quality in Early Adolescents (2018, methodology): “with the strengths assigned to the virtue of humanity; a result that Park and Peterson (2006) expected, but did not find in their study.”
Increasing Middle School Students’ Life Satisfaction: Efficacy of a Positive Psychology Group Intervention (2014, positive): “Next, students completed the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (VIA-Youth; Park and Peterson 2006) online at www.”
A Strengths-Based Approach to Outdoor and Adventure Education: Possibilities for Personal Growth (2010, background): “Flow (Fave & Massimini, 2005), hope (Snyder, Lopez, Shorey, Rand, & Feldman, 2003), gratitude (Froh, Sefick, & Emmons, 2008), and character strengths (Park & Peterson, 2006) are among the many such concepts being studied and applied in youth education.”
Humility: Review of measurement strategies and conceptualization as personality judgment (2010, background): “Teacher ratings of students were unrelated to student ratings of themselves on the adolescent version of the MH (Park & Peterson, 2006 ).”