Character strengths – Part 3

Blog #55 – Character strengths – Part 3   Having done the necessary background work over the last two entries, today we will begin to detail the strengths deemed to have met the necessary criteria for inclusion in the VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues.   As mentioned previously, the preliminary work identified six…

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Character strengths – Part 2

Blog #54 – Character strengths – Part 2   Last time, we began talking about positive psychology and the formal study of character strengths, with specific reference to the VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues. We described how Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman took on the challenge of creating this classification, and over a…

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