Greater strengths of character and recovery from illness

By Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park, Martin E. P. Seligman. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Ethics, Values, Virtues, and Character Strengths in Mindfulness-Based Interventions: a Psychological Science Perspective (2015, background): “Recovery from physical illness is associated with bravery, kindness, and humor, coping with psychological disorders with appreciation of beauty and love of learning (Peterson et al. 2006).”
Reconsidering happiness: the costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia (2008, unknown): “However, recent related research clearly shows that certain strengths and virtues are associated with greater satisfaction and success in life (eg, Biswas-Diener, 2006 ; Park & Peterson, 2006 ; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004 ; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2006 ).”
Character strengths in fifty-four nations and the fifty US states (2006, methodology): “Third, we devised measures of character strengths that have demonstrable reliability and promising validity (Park & Peterson, 2005 , in press; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005 , 2006 ).”
Strengths Use as a Predictor of Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life (2011, background): “…of character strengths that contributed to increased life satisfaction (e.g., appreciation of beauty, forgiveness, gratitude, humor, and kindness), whereas a history of illness was associated with lower levels of life satisfaction among those who had not recovered (Peterson et al. 2006).”
Character strengths and well-being in Croatia: An empirical investigation of structure and correlates (2010, background): “Some degree of negative skew for character strengths had been previously reported (Linley et al., 2007; Peterson et al., 2006).”
Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction (2007, background): “Details concerning the reliability and validity of the VIA-IS are presented elsewhere (eg, Park & Peterson, 2006b ; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2006 ; Peterson & Seligman, 2003 , 2004 ).”
Character strengths predict resilience over and above positive affect, self-efficacy, optimism, social support, self-esteem, and life satisfaction (2017, background): “They found that bravery was related to the recovery of life satisfaction after physical illness (Peterson et al., 2006), and to posttraumatic growth (Peterson et al.”
Character strengths in the United Kingdom: The VIA Inventory of Strengths (2007, unknown): “Notably, of the 336 mean scores reported (24 strengths · 7 age groups · 2 gender), only 12 mean scores were lower than 3, and only 11 mean scores were higher than 4. Standard deviations ranged from .44 (Integrity: Females, 45– 54 years) through .97 (Spirituality: Males, 55–64 years), which is consis”