Character Strengths and Virtues

By Martin E. P. Seligman, Christopher Peterson. 2004

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Emerging Positive Organizational Behavior (2007, background): “C. Peterson and Seligman (2004) contend that, unlike a scientific taxonomy emphasizing an underlying structure based on established theory, a classification system better serves an emerging field such as positive psychology through establishing some working boundaries for its research and practice…”
Flourish Index and Secure Flourish Index – Validation in workplace settings (2019, background): “Additionally, two new character and virtue questions were proposed because, although several scales for measuring specific virtues had been developed (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004; Peterson & Seligman, 2004), single-item character and virtue questions are scarce in the literature.”
Toward a Dual-Systems Model of What Makes Life Worth Living (2013, background): “Peterson and Seligman (2004) propose that people want to live a life of pleasure, engagement, and meaning in order to live a really happy life.”
Meaning in Nature: Meaning in Life as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Well-Being (2013, background): “Second, it may also be instructive to examine whether nature connectedness is associated with certain strengths of character (Peterson and Seligman 2004) more than others.”
Character development through the curriculum: teaching and assessing the understanding and practice of virtue (2020, background): “Among the signs that character is a focus of increasing cross-cultural attention and educational intervention was the publication, by the American Psychological Association, of Character Strengths and Virtues (Peterson & Seligman, 2004), which presents evidence that virtues conducive to human flouri”
Psychological capital and performance among undergraduate students: the role of meaning-focused coping and satisfaction (2018, background): “Gustems-Carnicer and Calderón (2016) found that positive reappraisal is predicted by the wisdom virtue which include personal strengths such as creativity, curiosity, perspective, judgement and love of learning (Peterson and Seligman 2004).”
An Investigation of Character Strengths in Relation to the Academic Success of College Students (2009, methodology): “Our rationale for Persistence and Self-Regulation being more highly related to GPA than the other character strengths is that these are the two strengths assessed by the VIA that correspond to Conscientiousness (Peterson & Seligman, 2004).”