Classical sources of human strength: Revisiting an old home and building a new one

By M. McCullough, C. R. Snyder. 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Amplifying and Buffering Effects of Virtuousness in Downsized Organizations (2006, background): “Furthermore, forgiveness has been shown to be associated with positive outcomes like greater trust, humanness, compassion, and caring in relationships (McCullough and Snyder, 2000).”
Perceived social support and self-esteem as mediators of the relationship between parental attachment and life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents (2017, background): “Specifically, the absence of disease appears to be a necessary, but insufficient condition of mental health (McCullough & Snyder, 2000; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).”
Character strengths in fifty-four nations and the fifty US states (2006, unknown): “E-mail: chrispet@umich.edu ISSN 1743-9760 print/ISSN 1743-9779 online/06/030118–12 2006 Taylor & Francis DOI: 10.1080/17439760600619567 positive traits (McCullough & Snyder, 2000).”
Positive Responses to Benefit and Harm: Bringing Forgiveness and Gratitude Into Cognitive Psychotherapy (2006, background): “…gratitude; well-being; cognitive psychotherapy; interpersonal Recently psychologists have reached a consensus that research has seriously neglected thestrengths of human behavior (Fredrickson, 1998; McCullough & Snyder, 2000; Myers &Diener, 1995; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000; Taylor, 2001).”
Toward a Multicultural Positive Psychology: (2003, background): “As McCullough and Snyder (2000) pointed out, the exclusion of virtue language was probably a necessary transition in psychology but one that has left numerous classical human strengths relatively unexamined in psychological research (also, see Cawley et al., 2000).”
The Psychology of Encouragement (2015, background): “…(d) address the question of the kind of person one should be rather than simply what one should do, and (e) are embodied in paragons who are well-known for their positive demonstrations of these strengths (McCullough & Snyder, 2000; Niemiec, 2013; Peterson & Park, 2009; Sandage & Hill, 2001).”
The structure of virtue: An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the virtues in action inventory of strengths (2010, background): “Virtue has recently been defined as ‘‘any psychological process that enables a person to think and act so as to benefit him- or herself and society” (McCullough & Snyder, 2000, p. 1).”
Strengths Coaching: A potential-guided approach to coaching psychology (2006, background): “Of course, this is not to say that strengths were entirely excluded from the map of psychological research, for indeed strengths research had continued for years (McCullough & Snyder, 2000).”
Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future (2006, background): “However, it is also eminently clear from a cursory examination of the research literature that positive psychology did not begin in 1997, or 1998, or 1999, or 2000 (see also McCullough & Snyder, 2000).”
Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction (2007, background): “…the mechanisms linking character and well-being and how they may vary across cultural contexts, but the present results support the premise of positive psychology that attention to good character can shed light on what makes life worth living (McCullough & Snyder, 2000; Peterson & Seligman, 2004).”
Personal goals, life meaning, and virtue: Wellsprings of a positive life. (2003, background): “The study of virtue as an aspect of personality is enjoying something of a renaissance in contemporary research (Cawley, Martin, & Johnson, 2000; Peterson & Seligman, 2000; Snyder & McCullough, 2000).”