Christopher Peterson and Character Strengths.An obituary for Christopher Peterson, an author, psychologist, and professor who is regarded as a world leader in positive psychology, is presented.LaursenViceErikViceK.ViceReclaiming Children & Youth
To assess the student personal strengths, the "Values in Action" Inventory of Strengths was used (VIA-IS; Seligman, Park & Peterson, 2004). To evaluate the academic performance, a total score was calculated from the weighted average of: (1) a test, (2) two individual works, and (3)...
In 2004 Peterson and Seligman published “The Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues” – a book in which they explained their research and expounded the idea that there were 6 categories of virtues that were shared across multiple societies, philosophies and religions over time; wisdom,...
M. (2015). Finding character strengths through loss: An extension of Peterson and Seligman (2003). Journal of Positive Psychology, 10, 53-63. DOI:10.1080/ 17439760.2014.920405.Schueller, S. M., Jayawickreme, E., Blackie, L. E., Forgeard, M. J., & Roepke, A. M. (2015). ...
College students (N=298, 54% female) described a time when they acted courageously, then rated their courageous action on each of 24 Values in Action (VIA) strengths (Peterson&Seligman, 2004), and on general and personal courage (Pury, Kowalski,&Spearman, 2007). Three of the four ...
Peterson goes on to present a list they used in 2004 summarizing their "possible criteria for signature strengths": a sense of ownership and authenticity ("this is the real me") vis-a-vis the strength a feeling of excitement while displaying it, particularly at first ...
After 76 college students completed the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (C. Peterson & M. E. P. Seligman, 2004), the authors randomly assigned them to work on 2 character strengths or on 1 character strength and 1 relative weakness. Combined, these groups showed significant gains ...
C Peterson,N Park,N Pole,W D'Andrea,MEP Seligman 摘要: How are strengths of character related to growth following trauma? A retrospective Web-based study of 1,739 adults found small, but positive associations among the number of potentially traumatic events experienced and a number of ...
2. Strengths and individual strengths use in organizations Positive psychology refers to the “science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions” (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000, p. 5). To study positive individual traits, Peterson and Seligman (2004)...