Character Strengths and Happiness among Young Children: Content Analysis of Parental Descriptions

By Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology

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Review of Brief School-Based Positive Psychological Interventions: a Taster for Teachers and Educators (2017, background): “Although most studies on strengths have been carried out on adult populations, we can examine strengths in young children if we have the lens to look out for them and the language to label them (Peterson and Park 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 (e.g., Biswas-Diener, 2006; Park & Peterson, 2006; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2006).”
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.”
How to Grow up Happy: An Exploratory Study on the Meaning of Happiness from Children’s Voices (2011, background): “Park and Peterson (2006) asked parents about the character traits and level of happiness of their children (3–9 years old), stating that love, hope, and enthusiasm impact on life satisfaction levels of children.”
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).”
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).”
Zest and work (2009, background): “Zest so assessed predicts general life satisfaction among children, youth, and adults (Park & Peterson, 2006a, 2006c; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004).”
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).”
Toward an integrated approach to positive development: Implications for intervention (2016, methodology): “Survey scales have been developed to measure perseverance, strengths, gratitude, and optimism (e.g., The Brief Strengths Test; 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).”
Please May I Have a Bike? Better Yet, May I Have a Hug? An Examination of Children’s and Adolescents’ Happiness (2009, background): “Park and Peterson (2006) point out that studies of happiness in children have been neglected.”
Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Levels of Gratitude, Life Satisfaction, and Hope (2013, background): “In addition, Park and Peterson (2006) did not find evidence of gratitude in their sample of 680 young children (ages 3-9) until the age of seven.”