Strengths of character and posttraumatic growth.
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It was concluded that growth following trauma may entail the strengthening of character and small, but positive associations among the number of potentially traumatic events experienced and a number of cognitive and interpersonal character strengths are found.Abstract:
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 cognitive and interpersonal character strengths. It was concluded that growth following trauma may entail the strengthening of character.read more
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Annual Research Review: What is resilience within the social ecology of human development?
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Resilience, Trauma, Context, and Culture
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Suicide Among Soldiers: A Review of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors
Matthew K. Nock,Charlene A. Deming,Carol S. Fullerton,Stephen E. Gilman,Matthew N. Goldenberg,Ronald C. Kessler,James E. McCarroll,Katie A. McLaughlin,Christopher Peterson,Michael Schoenbaum,Barbara Stanley,Robert J. Ursano +11 more
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Character Strengths: Research and Practice
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Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS): Adaptation and Validation of the German Version and the Development of a Peer-Rating Form
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TL;DR: The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS; Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005a) is an English-language self-report questionnaire that measures 24 widely-valued character strengths.
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