Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS): Adaptation and Validation of the German Version and the Development of a Peer-Rating Form

By Willibald F. Ruch, R. Proyer, C. Harzer, Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson, Martin E. P. Seligman. 2010

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Strength-Based Positive Interventions: Further Evidence for Their Potential in Enhancing Well-Being and Alleviating Depression (2013, methodology): “For example, the humor scale of Peterson and Seligman’s (2004) Values-in-Action Inventory of Strengths correlated in a robustly positive direction with life satisfaction in a broad range of studies (e.g., Park et al. 2004; Proyer et al. 2011; Ruch et al. 2010a, b).”
Testing Strengths-Based Interventions: A Preliminary Study on the Effectiveness of a Program Targeting Curiosity, Gratitude, Hope, Humor, and Zest for Enhancing Life Satisfaction (2013, methodology): “We used a German version that has already been used in earlier studies (e.g., Peterson et al. 2007; Ruch et al. 2010a, b, c, d).”
Psychometric Evaluation of the Simplified Chinese Version of Flourishing Scale (2016, result): “…rate themselves much higher than what their actions suggest, in order to avoid bias or judgment from the investigators, some studies found there were little differences between the self- and peer-rated strengths and virtues (Buschor, Proyer, & Ruch, 2013; Proyer & Ruch, 2009; Ruch et al., 2010).”
The virtuousness of adult playfulness: the relation of playfulness with strengths of character (2011, methodology): “Ruch et al. (2010) reported good internal consistencies (median = .77), stabilities (the median test-retest correlation across nine months was .73), and provide information on the factorial as well as convergent validity of the German form, which has already been used in several studies (e.g.,…”
The Role of a Good Character in 12-Year-Old School Children: Do Character Strengths Matter in the Classroom? (2012, background): “However, as already shown by Ruch et al. (2011) girls were found to be more likely to report higher scores in beauty (d = .”
Examining playfulness in adults: Testing its correlates with personality, positive psychological functioning, goal aspirations, and multi-methodically assessed ingenuity (2012, unknown): “We used a German translation of the scale that had proved its usefulness and good psychometric properties in previous studies (e.g., Peterson et al., 2007; Proyer, Ruch, & Chen, 2012; Ruch et al., 2010).”
The well-being of playful adults: Adult playfulness, subjective well-being, physical well-being, and the pursuit of enjoyable activities (2013, background): “The German translation has proved its usefulness and good psychometric properties in earlier studies (e.g., Proyer et al. in press; Ruch et al. 2010).”
Integrating psychological and cultural perspectives on virtue: The hierarchical structure of character strengths (2015, methodology): “This conclusion argues for using an emotionladen label for the former, such as Inspiration, rather than the more abstract concept of theological strengths that has been popular in earlier factor analytic studies (e.g. Ruch et al., 2010; Singh & Choubisa, 2010).”
Self- and peer-rated character strengths: How do they relate to satisfaction with life and orientations to happiness? (2013, methodology): “Correlations with demographics (age, sex, and educational status) replicated earlier findings with the German VIA-IS (Ruch et al., 2010).”
Dirty Data: The Effects of Screening Respondents Who Provide Low-Quality Data in Survey Research (2017, unknown): “Previous research has established the existence of moderate gender and age differences in character strengths (LittmanOvadia & Lavy, 2012; Ruch et al., 2010).”
Sense of Humor, Stable Affect, and Psychological Well-Being (2014, methodology): “Although increasing humor behaviors was not used in any of these intervention studies, previous research has found humor as a character strength was correlated with happiness (Ruch et al., 2010), and a good sense of humor was related to cheerfulness (Ruch & Carrell, 1998), so humor-related behaviors”
Relationships among higher-order strengths factors, subjective well-being, and general self-efficacy - The case of Israeli adolescents (2013, background): “This relationship has been studied mostly among adults (e.g., LittmanOvadia & Lavy, 2012; Peterson, Ruch, Beermann, Park, & Seligman, 2007; Ruch et al., 2010), and to a much lesser degree among young people (e.g., Park & Peterson, 2006, Van Eeden, Wissing, Dreyer, Park, & Peterson, 2008).”
Strength Use in the Workplace: A Literature Review (2020, background): “Although Peterson and Seligman’s conceptualization of strengths contains six virtues, early factor analysis suggested only four to five factors that partly overlapped with their model (Littman-Ovadia and Lavy 2012; McGrath 2014; Peterson et al. 2008; Ruch et al. 2010).”
The Study of Character Development: Towards Tests of a Relational Developmental Systems Model (2015, methodology): “Overall, however, despite remaining issues of latent construct definition and dimensionality, the work of McGrath and of other scholars using the VIA inventory [e.g., Brdar & Kashdan, 2010; Littman-Ovadia & Lavy, 2012; Peterson et al., 2008; Ruch et al., 2010] suggest that there may be as many as fi”
The Role of Character Strengths for Task Performance, Job Dedication, Interpersonal Facilitation, and Organizational Support (2014, methodology): “The factor analysis resulted in five factors that were highly similar to the solution reported by Ruch et al. (2010).”
Factor Structure of the Chinese Virtues Questionnaire (2012, result): “In fact, inconsistent results 1 Southwest University, Beibei District, Chongqing, China 2 City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong 3 Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China Corresponding Author: Samuel M.Y. Ho, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Email: munyinho@cityu.”