Strengths of Character in Schools
By Nansook Park, Christopher Peterson. 2009
109 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Education
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Citations in the corpus
- Developing autonomous learning in first year university students using perspectives from positive psychology (2013, background): “Peterson and Seligman (2009) have suggested that the VIA is likely to change as more empirical evidence accumulates.”
- Positive Psychology and Positive Education: Old Wine in New Bottles? (2012, background): “Furthermore, although love, hope, and zest are most consistently related to happiness for individuals across all ages, gratitude has appeared as an additional factor associated with happiness among youth (Park & Peterson, 2009).”
- Through the lens of strength: A framework for educating the heart (2015, methodology): “Applying this lens to education implies an ‘individualized character education based on each student’s character strength profile’ (Park & Peterson, 2009).”
- Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the life satisfaction and well-being of adolescents (2011, background): “Overall, research evidence to date indicates that character strengths are linked to well-being and flourishing among children and youth (Park & Peterson, 2009).”
- A Review of School-Based Positive Psychology Interventions (2011, background): “The character strengths of perseverance, fairness, gratitude, honesty, hope, and perspective were significant predictors of grade-point average above and beyond IQ (Park and Peterson, as cited in Park & Peterson, 2009b).”
- Review of Brief School-Based Positive Psychological Interventions: a Taster for Teachers and Educators (2017, background): “Other strengths that have been related to achievement are curiosity, perseverance, and temperance strengths (for more details, see Park and Peterson 2009b).”