Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence: Relationship with Personality, Prosociality and Well-Being

Trait Appreciation of Beauty: A Story of Love, Transcendence, and Inquiry

“…In other studies, EmB showed positive associations with satisfaction with life, spiritual transcendence, dispositional gratitude (Diessner et al, 2008), dispositional righteous anger (anger when witnessing injustice toward others), dispositional shame, and reward responsiveness of the behavioral activation system (Van de Vyver & Abrams, 2017b), and negative correlations with materialistic values (Diessner et al, 2008). Further cross-sectional studies found that the appreciation of moral beauty correlated with higher levels of self-reported agreeableness, extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, self-transcendence, satisfaction with life, hope, vitality, personal growth, and purpose in life, as well as with lower levels of neuroticism and envy (Landis et al, 2009;Martínez-Martí et al, 2016). And last, it was repeatedly found that AoB in the moral domain is associated with higher levels of self-reported altruistic behavior (Chang, Kim, & Lee, 2015;Landis et al, 2009).…”

“…They considered (a) and (c) to be objects of the appreciation of beauty (i.e. goodness in the physical and social worlds) and (b) as the non-moral object of appreciation of excellence Martínez-Martí et al (2016),. working under the assumption thatPeterson and Seligman (2004) correctly categorized AoB as a strength of the virtue of transcendence, report evidence that people who score high in appreciation of beauty and excellence "are generally high in selftranscendence, i.e., they tend to get absorbed and to lose awareness of time and self, experience a strong relationship with nature and the universe, feel that everything seems to be part of a living organism, and can often feel vitalized and comforted by spiritual experiences" (p. 18).…”

Developing a Professional Performance Evaluation System for Pre-Service Automobile Repair Vocational High School Teachers in Taiwan

“…The construct validity was verified by using the r altering-CV and r contrast-CV indices provided by Western and Rosenthal [64] in the "quantifying construct validity" (QVC) procedure, since the proposed standard was adapted from the "Professional Standard for Teachers" [65,66]. The r altering-CV is the correlation between the collected patterns and the predicted patterns of correlations no matter what their magnitudes are [67]. The r contrast-CV takes into account the correlations; therefore, in addition to the order of the correlations, the parameter also compares the absolute values of the predicted and the observed correlations [67].…”

“…The r altering-CV is the correlation between the collected patterns and the predicted patterns of correlations no matter what their magnitudes are [67]. The r contrast-CV takes into account the correlations; therefore, in addition to the order of the correlations, the parameter also compares the absolute values of the predicted and the observed correlations [67]. A selected group of experts independently give their opinions on the pattern of expected correlations so that the median of each value given by the experts is used during the calculations of the indices [63].…”

Prosocial Behavior at Work Through the Lens of Character Strengths

“…Unlike other approaches to strengths [e.g., CliftonStrengths (Rath, 2007) or Strengths Finder (Linley and Bateman, 2018)] the VIA classification focuses on positive character and personality traits in general, such that it isn't constrained to a specific setting and is widely and robustly researched with published scientific support to its characteristics and benefits (e.g., McGrath, 2017). VIA traits, CS, have been proposed to be prosocial (Peterson and Seligman, 2004;Park and Peterson, 2006) and recent research is providing initial evidence to these claims (e.g., Martínez-Martí et al, 2016). However, CS and PB at work is understudied, as evidenced by it going unmentioned in a recent review of positive outcomes of CS at work (Miglianico et al, 2019).…”