Character Strengths – Stability, Change, and Relationships with Well-Being Changes

Gander, Fabian; Hofmann, Jennifer; Proyer, René T.; Ruch, Willibald

doi:10.1007/s11482-018-9690-4

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“…Character strengths are trait-like personality characteristics; they exhibit a reasonable amount of stability over time and situations, but they are nevertheless influenced by life circumstances and might therefore change over the life course or as the result of training (cf. Gander et al 2019).…”

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Fostering character strengths to promote thriving and flourishing in organizations

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2020

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Character strengths are positively valued personality traits that find expression in individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Most adults develop up to seven core character strengths (i.e., "signature strengths") which are central to their identity. According to fundamental theoretical assumptions about signature strengths, Person-Environment Fit Theory, Job Demands-Resources Theory and prior empirical research, employing one's signature strengths leads to a number of favorable general and work outcomes. Strategies on the individual, team, and organizational level fostering signature strengths use in the workplace are summarized. Keywords Character strengths • signature strengths • coaching Charakterstärken als Ansatzpunkt zur Förderung des persönlichen Wachstums in Organisationen Zusammenfassung Charakterstärken sind positiv bewertete Persönlichkeitsmerkmale, die sich im individuellen Denken, Fühlen und Verhalten widerspiegeln. Erwachsene entwickeln meist bis zu sieben Kerncharakterstärken, sogenannte "Signaturstärken", die besonders zentral für sie sind. Entsprechend theoretischen Annahmen zu Signaturstärken, Person-Environment Fit Theorie und Job Demands-Resources Theorie sowie Forschungsbefunden führt die Anwendung der Signaturstärken zu zahlreichen gewünschten allgemeinen und berufsbezogenen Outcomes. Strategien auf individueller, Team-und Organisationsebene zur Erhöhung der Anwendung der Signaturstärken im Beruf werden zusammengefasst.

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“…First, most relationships were rather small by conventional standards. This can partially be explained by the use of a short form for the assessment of character strengths (i.e., the Character Strengths Rating Form; CSRF); studies that compared findings of this instrument with the standard instrument (i.e., the VIA-IS) confirmed that, when using the CSRF, relationships are generally underestimated but show a highly similar pattern (Ruch et al, 2014;Gander et al, 2020). Nonetheless, most participants scored rather high in most strengths, and more fine-grained measures of character strengths might yield more appropriate estimates.…”

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“…Various studies have been conducted on the relationships of character strengths with different indicators of well-being. Overall, findings suggest that almost all character strengths positively relate to subjective and psychological well-being (Hausler et al, 2017;Wagner et al, 2020), physical well-being (Proyer et al, 2013), general health (Gander et al, 2020), as well as life satisfaction (Buschor et al, 2013), and job satisfaction (Jungo et al, 2008;Heintz and Ruch, 2020). The exceptions are the strengths of modesty, prudence, appreciation of beauty and excellence, and judgment, for which often small negative relationships (modesty), no relationships, or small positive relationships with well-being (prudence, beauty, and judgment) are reported.…”

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“…They like to explore and discover the world, they are seldom bored, and it's easy for them to keep themselves busy." Ruch et al (2014) report good convergent validity with the standard instrument for assessing character strengths, the VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS; Peterson et al, 2005), and Gander et al (2020) provided information on its stability and criterion validity when predicting external criteria such as life satisfaction, mental health problems, or general health.…”

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Character Strengths: Person–Environment Fit and Relationships With Job and Life Satisfaction

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Several studies demonstrated the relevance of character strengths in the workplace. For example, it has been shown that they positively relate to performance and are strong predictors of job satisfaction. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that occupational groups differ in their average levels of character strengths. However, little is known about the effects of the congruence between a person's strengths profile with the average profile within an occupational group (environmental congruence) on well-being. In a nationally representative sample (N = 870) of employed adults, we analyzed data on character strengths (t1), and measures of job and life satisfaction at three different time points (t1-t3; separated by 1 year). We studied (1) whether employees in different occupational groups differ with regard to their levels and configurations of character strengths, (2) how levels and configurations of character strengths relate to concurrent and predictive job and life satisfaction, and (3) whether a fit between strengths of a person and the environment goes along with current and future job and life satisfaction. Results confirmed previous findings that small, but meaningful, differences in character strengths among employees in different occupational groups can be found and that character strengths positively relate to current and prospective job and life satisfaction. Furthermore, results suggested that a better person-environment fit goes along with higher job and life satisfaction. These results suggest character strengths and could play an important role in vocational and career counseling.

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“…Despite character strengths being seen as stable traits, they are also considered malleable due to cultivation or deliberate interventions. Accordingly, Gander et al (2018) explored the stability and malleability of character strengths and their relations to well-being applying a longitudinal study with more than 1700 participants. Their results provide an important basis for intervention studies addressing the promotion of character strengths and well-being of individuals.…”

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Special Issue: Character Strengths, Well-Being, and Health in Educational and Vocational Settings

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The evidence-based promotion of well-being for individuals, institutions and societies is a common goal amongst quality of life researchers. Central research concerns in psychology can be described as what qualities from Bwithin^a person, or what aspects of an individuum's personality, contribute to health and well-being? Are there stable, interindividual differences that enable and promote flourishing? And what are necessary requirements (context factors) to bring forth the qualities from Bwithin^a person? About 15 years ago Peterson and Seligman published their seminal book BCharacter Strengths and Virtues. A Handbook and Classification^(Peterson and Seligman 2004). Combining cross-cultural, philosophical and theological traditions concerning the Bgood life^with recent psychological inquiries they developed the Values in Action (VIA) classification of strengths and virtues. They identified 24 strength presumed to contribute to the fulfillments that constitute the good life, for oneself and for others. Character strengths are personality traits that are positively valued, and represent different routes to the superordinate virtues. Short descriptions of the character strengths are provided in Table 1.To be included in the VIA classification and considered a character strength, a potential strength had to fulfill a minimum set out of ten criteria, including being morally valued in its own rights; being traitlike, manifest in thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and somewhat consistent across situations and time; and being distinct from the other character strengths in the classification (Peterson and Seligman 2004).Thereby the authors reclaimed the study of character and virtue as legitimate topics of psychological research that has been neglected for a long time, since psychology focused on studying value-neutral personality traits (see for example Allport 1921). However, when we are interested in studying positive outcomes, in particular health Applied Research in Quality of Life (2020) 15:301-306 https://doi.

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Character Strengths – Stability, Change, and Relationships with Well-Being Changes

Cited by 60 publications

References 44 publications

Fostering character strengths to promote thriving and flourishing in organizations

Fostering character strengths to promote thriving and flourishing in organizations

Character Strengths: Person–Environment Fit and Relationships With Job and Life Satisfaction

Special Issue: Character Strengths, Well-Being, and Health in Educational and Vocational Settings

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