Character strengths in the United Kingdom: The VIA Inventory of Strengths

By P. Alex Linley, John Maltby, Alex M. Wood, S. Joseph, Susan J. Harrington, Christopher Peterson, Nansook Park, Martin E. P. Seligman. 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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Character strengths and well-being in Croatia: An empirical investigation of structure and correlates (2010, methodology): “, 2004), United Kingdom (Linley et al., 2007), Switzerland (Peterson et al.”
Strengths coaching with leaders (2009, background): “…demonstrated, people who use their strengths more are happier and more fulfilled, and feel as if they have more energy available to them (Govindji & Linley, 2007), they achieve their goals more effectively (Linley, 2003, 2008), they are more engaged (Harter, Schmidt & Hayes, 2002), and they…”
Character strengths and wellbeing in adolescence: Structure and correlates of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Children (2012, background): “Lastly, gender may influence the endorsement of certain strengths over others, with girls tending to score higher than boys on some strengths (i.e., appreciation of beauty, kindness, love, fairness, gratitude, perspective and spirituality; Park, 2004a; cf. Linley et al., 2007).”
Character Strengths Interventions: Building on What We Know for Improved Outcomes (2011, background): “To date, most research on character strengths has found that despite some gender differences in the distribution of character strengths (Linley et al. 2007), there have been no interactions between gender and interventions.”
Using personal and psychological strengths leads to increases in well-being over time: A longitudinal study and the development of the strengths use questionnaire (2011, methodology): “The VIA inventory of strengths (Brdar & Kashdan, 2010; Linley et al., 2007; Peterson & Seligman, 2004) details 24 specific strengths, the use of any may be particularly strongly related to well-being.”
Using signature strengths in pursuit of goals: Effects on goal progress, need satisfaction, and well-being, and implications for coaching psychologists (2010, background): “the emotional consequences of using strengths (Seligman, Steen, Park & Peterson, 2005) to regional differences in strengths (Park, Peterson & Seligman, 2006), including specific analysis of the VIA strengths in the UK population (Linley et al., 2007).”
Conceptualizing gratitude and appreciation as a unitary personality trait (2008, unknown): “Conventional values suggest that good fit is indicated by SRMR values below .10 and CFI values above .90; very good fit is indicated by SRMR .95 ( Hu & Bentler, 1999 ).”
Strengths Use as a Predictor of Well-Being and Health-Related Quality of Life (2011, result): “(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 (frequently bottom ranked) included prudence, modesty, and self-regulation, and that with the exception of religiousn”
Factor Structure of the Chinese Virtues Questionnaire (2012, background): “…Japanese were later developed, and more than 1 million individuals from different countries and regions have completed the questionnaire online (Biswas-Diener, 2006; Linley et al., 2007; Park & Peterson, 2010; Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004; Peterson, Ruch, Beermann, Park, & Seligman, 2007).”