Character Strengths: Research and Practice

By Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson. 2009

361 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Lisa Wagner
2. Rebecca Shankland
3. Ryan M. Niemiec
4. Evelyn Rosset
5. L. Waters
6. Ruth A. Baer
7. Phillipa McKeering
8. Yoon-Suk Hwang

In Safety Research

1. Lisa Wagner
2. Rebecca Shankland
3. Ryan M. Niemiec
4. Evelyn Rosset
5. L. Waters

In Social Psychology

1. Lisa Wagner
2. Rebecca Shankland
3. Ryan M. Niemiec
4. Evelyn Rosset
5. L. Waters
6. Phillipa McKeering
7. Yoon-Suk Hwang
8. Ruth A. Baer

Citations in the corpus

• Review of Brief School-Based Positive Psychological Interventions: a Taster for Teachers and Educators (2017, background): “Other strengths that have been related to achievement are curiosity, perseverance, and temperance strengths (for more details, see Park and Peterson 2009b).”
• Character Strengths and Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Strengths-Based Approach from Positive Psychology (2017, neutral): “…of character, character strengths have been defined as positive, trait-like capacities for thinking, feeling, and behaving in ways that benefit oneself and others (Niemiec, 2014), and also as “a family of positive characteristics . . . each of which exists in degrees” (Park & Peterson, 2009, p. 3).”
• 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): “At the beginning of this century, when character was re-conceptualized in psychology, friendship was even used to define character: “Good character is what we look for in a friend” (Park & Peterson, 2009, p. 1).”
• A Review of School-Based Positive Psychology Interventions (2011, background): “Hope, kindness, social intelligence, self-control and perspective have also been shown to buffer people from the negative effects of stress and trauma (Park & Peterson, 2009a).”
• Finding the golden mean: the overuse, underuse, and optimal use of character strengths (2019, background): “Good character is not the absence of deficits, rather is a family of positive characteristics (Park & Peterson, 2009).”