Character strengths and fluid intelligence

Kretzschmar, André; Wagner, Lisa; Gander, Fabian; Hofmann, Jennifer; Proyer, René T.; Ruch, Willibald

doi:10.1111/jopy.12715

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“…Firstly, it is important to mention that soft skills did not relate with fluid (reasoning) ability (in line with previous studies; Kretzschmar et al 2022 ; Lechner et al 2022 ), whereas SRL strategies represented the most central and influential node in the network. In short, these findings suggest that, rather than relating to fluid intelligence skills, the influence of soft skills in the school context may thus be directed towards the psychological and psychosocial variables of academic performance.…”

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Adapt, Explore, or Keep Going? The Role of Adaptability, Curiosity, and Perseverance in a Network of Study-Related Factors and Scholastic Success

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Soft skills are the key characteristics for students’ success and wellbeing in the 21st century, but they were only rarely studied contemporarily or integrated into comprehensive models of self-regulated learning. This makes it difficult to understand the role that specific skills have above and beyond the others and how they work together to favor students’ achievement and life satisfaction. For this reason, in a sample of 585 students (10–18 years old), we applied an exploratory network analysis and studied three crucial soft skills (i.e., adaptability, curiosity, and perseverance) and their contemporary network of inter-relationships with a host of functional study-related factors, including self-regulated learning strategies, motivation, emotions, cognitive abilities, academic achievement, and life and school satisfaction. Results show that the three soft skills play a positive role within the school context through their association with the majority of the study-related factors that mediate their relationships with academic achievement. Importantly, the results differentiated adaptability (which mainly relates with wellbeing and emotional variables), perseverance (which relates with the cognitive and behavioral aspect of learning), and curiosity (which bridges the connection between the other skills and relates with emotional and behavioral variables) in the school context. Overall, these findings contribute to the deepening of the theoretical framework on soft skills and their role as part of a successful learning profile, and inform us about the possible effectiveness of intervention on soft skills for students’ achievement and wellbeing.

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“…It is therefore possible that the comparison groups held higher education levels than the exemplars sample when examined on a more fine-grained level. Since love of learning (and, to lower degrees, creativity and curiosity) were positively related to education and cognitive abilities in previous studies (e.g., Kretzschmar et al, 2022;Ruch et al, 2010), the difference between the exemplars and comparison samples could be exaggerated in the present study for this character strength.…”

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Paragons of character—Character strengths and well‐being of moral, creative, and religious exemplars

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Wagner,

Vylobkova

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Journal of Personality

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ObjectiveWhich traits best describe individuals who are recognized as exemplary in different domains? And can self‐rated positively valued personality traits distinguish such individuals from the general population?BackgroundThe study of exemplary individuals’ personality traits traditionally focused on general and broad traits. Using character strengths, which are narrower and designed to describe desirable behavior, could provide new insights.MethodIn this study, we examined 204 outstanding individuals—exemplars who received or were nominated for a public award recognizing their exemplary behavior (e.g., a Carnegie Rescuers Award; n = 119), individuals holding a patent (n = 62), and individuals living in a religious order (n = 23). We compared these exemplars to comparison samples matched based on demographic variables. All participants completed self‐report questionnaires assessing character strengths and well‐being (e.g., satisfaction with life).ResultsResults showed that the three groups of exemplars differed meaningfully in their character strengths and well‐being from the matched comparison groups. Compared with matched counterparts, moral exemplars scored higher on the strengths related to the virtues of courage, humanity, and justice as well as the character strength of humility, creative exemplars scored higher on the character strengths of creativity and honesty, and religious exemplars scored higher on gratitude and spirituality.ConclusionOverall, our findings suggest that character strengths are a useful framework for studying exemplary behavior.

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Paragons of Character – Character Strengths and Well-Being of Moral, Creative, and Religious Exemplars

Gander¹,

Wagner²,

Vylobkova³

et al. 2023

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Which traits best describe individuals who are recognized as exemplary in different domains? And can self-rated positively valued personality traits distinguish such individuals from the general population? In the present study, we examined 204 outstanding individuals – exemplars who received or were nominated for a public award recognizing their exemplary behavior (e.g., a Carnegie Rescuers Award; n = 119), individuals holding a patent (n = 62), and individuals living in a religious order (n = 23). We compared these exemplars to a total of n = 2,040 comparison individuals matched based on demographic variables (10 controls per exemplar). All participants completed self-report questionnaires assessing character strengths and well-being (e.g., satisfaction with life). Results showed that the three groups of exemplars differed meaningfully in their character strengths and their well-being from the matched comparison groups. In addition to the strengths related to the virtues of courage, humanity, and justice (moral exemplars), and the character strengths of creativity (creative exemplars), gratitude and spirituality (religious exemplars), exemplars tended to score higher on humility. Overall, our findings suggest that character strengths are a useful framework for studying exemplary behavior.

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Character strengths and fluid intelligence

Cited by 8 publications

References 83 publications

Adapt, Explore, or Keep Going? The Role of Adaptability, Curiosity, and Perseverance in a Network of Study-Related Factors and Scholastic Success

Adapt, Explore, or Keep Going? The Role of Adaptability, Curiosity, and Perseverance in a Network of Study-Related Factors and Scholastic Success

Paragons of character—Character strengths and well‐being of moral, creative, and religious exemplars

Paragons of Character – Character Strengths and Well-Being of Moral, Creative, and Religious Exemplars

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