Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

By N. Mayerson, R. Fowler, Barbara L. Fredrickson, H. Gardner, David Myers, C. R. Snyder, C. Spielberger, C. Steele, Robert J. Sternberg, G. Vaillant and 1 more. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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The construct validity of vigor and its antecedents: A qualitative study (2009, background): “Furthermore, in ancient Japanese cultural traditions the concept of Ki related to one’s feelings of being able to mobilize mental and physical energy (Peterson & Seligman, 2004).”
Measurement Matters: Assessing Personal Qualities Other Than Cognitive Ability for Educational Purposes (2015, background): “For example, some prefer—whereas others, with equal fervor, detest—the terms character (Berkowitz, 2012; Damon, 2010; Peterson & Seligman, 2004; Tough, 2013), character skills (Heckman & Kautz, 2014b), or virtue (Kristjánsson, 2013; for a review of moral character education, see Lapsley & Yeager,…”
From Continence to Virtue (2008, background): “Peterson and Seligman (2004) also endorse this by focusing on ‘the strengths of character that make the good life possible’ (p.”
Character strengths predict resilience over and above positive affect, self-efficacy, optimism, social support, self-esteem, and life satisfaction (2017, methodology): “Peterson and Seligman (2004) defined character strengths as positive, morally valued traits of personality.”
Appraisal components and emotion traits: Examining the appraisal basis of trait curiosity (2008, unknown): “Appraisal research has sometimes been criticised for relying too much on retrospective reports and hypothetical scenarios (e.g., Parkinson, 1995).”
Measuring well-being: A comparison of subjective well-being and PERMA (2018, unknown): “The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS; Peterson & Seligman, 2004) is a self-report measure containing 24 subscales that correspond to different character strengths.”
Character Strengths: Research and Practice (2009, background): “The Values in Action (VIA) Project or the past several years, from the perspective of positive psychology (Peterson, 2006), we have been involved in a project that addresses important strengths of character and how to measure them (Park & Peterson, 2006b; Peterson & Seligman, 2004).”
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, methodology): “Through factor analyses of the VIA-IS, Peterson and Seligman (2004) identified five second-order factors, which have also been reproduced for the German (Ruch, Proyer et al., 2010) and for the Hebrew version (Littman-Ovadia & Lavy, 2012); i.e. emotional (e.g. zest, hope), interpersonal (e.g.…”
Supervisor Prosocial Motivation, Employee Thriving, and Helping Behavior: A Trickle-Down Model of Psychological Safety (2018, background): “Furthermore, employees experiencing vitality are likely to feel a sense of energy and aliveness (Ryan & Bernstein, 2004).”
From strengths use to work performance: The role of harmonious passion, subjective vitality, and concentration (2014, background): “…research had also shown a direct link between strengths use and subjective vitality (Govindji & Linley, 2007; Wood et al., 2011) and this proposition was also consistent with theory (Hodges & Clifton, 2004; Linley, 2008; Peterson & Seligman, 2004), the model was respecified to include this path.”
Towards happiness: Experiences of work-role fit, meaningfulness and work engagement of industrial/organisational psychologists in South Africa (2010, background): “Participating in activities that are congruent with an individual’s values (Waterman, 1993) and/or signature strengths (Peterson & Seligman, 2004) contributes to the experience of psychological meaningfulness and engagement in work (May et al., 2004).”
Who engages with moral beauty? (2013, background): “Haidt and Keltner (2004) predicted that the character strength of ‘appreciation of beauty and excellence’ (p. 537) would be related to spirituality and transcendence.”
Vigor as a Positive Affect at Work: Conceptualizing Vigor, Its Relations with Related Constructs, and Its Antecedents and Consequences (2011, background): “The POMS short- form has satisfactory construct validity (Peterson & Seligman, 2004).”
High implicit self‐esteem is not necessarily advantageous: discrepancies between explicit and implicit self‐esteem and their relationship with anger expression and psychological health (2007, background): “As one might intuitively assume, modesty is related to positive outcomes, especially in the interpersonal domain (e.g. Keltner, Young, & Buswell, 1997; Tice, Butler, Muraven, & Stillwell, 1995) and therefore conceptualized as a character strength (Peterson & Seligman, 2004).”