Character Strengths and Virtues of Developing Military Leaders: An International Comparison

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Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction (2007, result): “1 Regardless, in most of our previous 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 result”
Character strengths in fifty-four nations and the fifty US states (2006, result): “Inspection of the raw scores in Table II shows that there were overall (cross-strength) differences in the scores from nations, as we have found in other comparative studies (Matthews, Eid, Kelly, Bailey, & Peterson, 2006 ; Shimai, Otake, Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2006 ).”
The Application of Signature Character Strengths and Positive Experiences at Work (2013, background): “Additionally, strengths like bravery, honesty, and teamwork discriminate between a civilian sample and military samples (Matthews et al. 2006).”
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, background): “Despite the potential importance of using strengths over simply possessing them, almost all previous research has focused on the consequences of having high or low levels of a strength.”