Character strengths in fifty-four nations and the fifty US states

By Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson, Martin E. P. Seligman. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction (2007, background): “…research, we found strong cultural and national similarities in the prevalence and correlates of character strengths (Matthews, Eid, Kelly, Bailey, & Peterson, 2006; Park et al., 2006; Shimai, Otake, Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006), so the present results if valid are potentially intriguing.”
Character strengths in 75 nations: An update (2015, methodology): “Park et al. (2006) provided results comparing other nations to both the observed US sample and a US sample corrected, so it more accurately matched the US population as a whole on various demographic variables.”
When the job is a calling: The role of applying one's signature strengths at work (2012, unknown): “Gusewell & Ruch, 2012a ; Muller & Ruch, 2011 ; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006 ; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2006 ; Peterson et al, 2005a ).”
Harmonious passion as an explanation of the relation between signature strengths’ use and well-being at work: Test of an intervention program (2012, background): “This questionnaire has been validated with thousands of individuals in a number of different languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish, etc.; Park et al., 2006; Peterson and Park, 2004, 2006).”
Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction in twenty-seven nations (2009, background): “We have elsewhere observed that cross-cultural psychologists tend to emphasize differences over similarities (Park et al., 2006).”
Preliminary Development of the Positive Experiences at School Scale for Elementary School Children (2013, unknown): “Our conjecture is grounded in the empirical findings from Peterson and Seligman’s (2004) inquiry into the Character Strengths framework, which has yielded 24 traits that seem to be generally comparable across national samples of adults (Park et al.”
Factor Structure of the Chinese Virtues Questionnaire (2012, background): “Park et al. (2006) studied character strengths in 54 nations with the English version of VIA-IS but only 110 of their 83,576 participants were Chinese who were educated enough to complete the English version of VIA-IS.”
Strengths Use as a Predictor of Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life (2011, background): “For example, in an Internet study of 117, 676 adults from 54 nations and all 50 American states, Park et al. (2006) found that the most commonly-endorsed VIA strengths (frequently top ranked) included kindness, fairness, honesty, gratitude, and judgment and the lesser-endorsed VIA strengths…”
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, background): “Furthermore, Park et al. (2006) found that humor was one of the strengths, out of the VIA classification, that was weighted highest in a multinational study involving fifty-four nations (in terms of highest mean scores; i.e., strong endorsement).”
GROUPS AND MORALITY (2014, background): “In a different approach, Park, Peterson, and Seligman (2006) recruited more than 100,000 English-speaking Internet users from 54 countries.”