VIA Character Strengths: Research and Practice (The First 10 Years)

By Ryan M. Niemiec. 2013

265 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. A. Carr
2. Robert E. McGrath
3. Ruth A. Baer
4. Y. Wong

In Clinical Psychology

1. A. Carr
2. Robert E. McGrath
3. Ruth A. Baer
4. Y. Wong
5. Kirk Warren Brown
6. E. Lykins
7. Christine Burke
8. S. Shapiro

In Social Psychology

1. A. Carr
2. Robert E. McGrath
3. Ruth A. Baer
4. Y. Wong
5. M. L. Martínez-Martí
6. Christine Burke
7. Willibald F. Ruch

Citations in the corpus

• Character Strengths and Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Strengths-Based Approach from Positive Psychology (2017, unknown): “…what strengths give each person the greatest sense of hope (i.e., instillation of hope), how the person might use his or her strengths to navigate barriers, and how the strengths could be used to generate and implement possible solutions using the Aware-Explore-Apply model (Niemiec, 2013, 2014).”
• Effectiveness of positive psychology interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, background): “The development of character strengths is the main pathway associated with Peterson and Seligman (2004) theory of virtues and strengths (Niemiec, 2013).”
• The Psychology of Encouragement (2015, background): “, people can cultivate habits to become more generous, patient, and courageous), (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 & ”
• Ethics, Values, Virtues, and Character Strengths in Mindfulness-Based Interventions: a Psychological Science Perspective (2015, background): “All scales of the VIA-IS have shown satisfactory internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent relationships with reports by others (see Niemiec 2013, for a summary).”
• Integrating psychological and cultural perspectives on virtue: The hierarchical structure of character strengths (2015, background): “For example, they described strengths as contributing to personal fulfillment; as morally valued; as manifesting in thoughts, feelings, and actions; as embodied in paragons; and so on (see also Niemiec, 2013; Peterson, 2006). The moral character of strengths was considered particularly important, as”