Character strengths predict subjective well-being during adolescence

By J. Gillham, Zoe Adams-Deutsch, J. Werner, K. Reivich, Virginia Coulter-Heindl, Mark Linkins, Breanna Winder, Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park, R. Abenavoli and 2 more. 2011

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Relationships among higher-order strengths factors, subjective well-being, and general self-efficacy - The case of Israeli adolescents (2013, background): “For example, Gillham et al. (2011) and Ruch et al. (in press) found similar factors in adolescent samples: They labeled the factors intellectual strengths, leadership strengths, other-directed strengths, temperance strengths, and transcendence strengths.”
Claremont Purpose Scale: A Measure that Assesses the Three Dimensions of Purpose among Adolescents (2018, background): “…should be related to a subjective sense of life satisfaction (Bronk, Hill, Lapsley, Talib, & Finch, 2009; Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985; Gillham et al., 2011; Peterson, Parks, & Seligman, 2005), and theoretical models of purpose among adults (Seligman, 2002) and young people (Benson,…”
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, background): “The resulting factor-solution was very similar to Gillham et al. (2011) showing convergences (Tucker’s phi) of .97, .97, .95, .93, and .89 for the corresponding factors.”
Enhancing wellbeing: An emerging model of the adaptive functions of music listening (2016, background): “Transcendence has been associated with a number of benefits including happiness and meaning (Beaumont, 2005), increased life satisfaction in adolescents (Gillham et al., 2011), and reduced loneliness in older adults (Walton, Shultz, Beck, & Walls, 1991).”
Factor Structure of the Chinese Virtues Questionnaire (2012, background): “Some longitudinal studies had shown they could predict future subjective wellbeing (Gillham et al., 2011), and identifying and using one’s character strengths was an effective strategy to achieve happiness (Mitchell, Stanimirovic, Klein, & Vella-Brodrick, 2009; Park et al., 2004; Peterson, 2006;…”