The good character at work: an initial study on the contribution of character strengths in identifying healthy and unhealthy work-related behavior and experience patterns

Gander, Fabian; Proyer, René T.; Ruch, Willibald; Wyss, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s00420-012-0736-x

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“…It is psychometrically well established and employed in various fields such as education (Shoshani & Aviv, 2012), work (Gander, Proyer, Ruch, & Wyss, 2012), health (Proctor, Maltby, & Linley, 2011), and illness (Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2006), and employed with adolescents and adults Weber & Rusch, 2012).…”

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confidence: 98%

Walking on the sunny side: What positive psychology can contribute to psychiatric rehabilitation concepts and practice.

Moran¹,

Nemec²

2013

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

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Walking on the sunny side: What positive psychology can contribute to psychiatric rehabilitation concepts and practice.

Moran¹,

Nemec²

2013

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal

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“…It is primarily characterized by a low sense of subjective importance of work, of professional ambition and readiness to spend energy, as well as lowered level of perfection at work. Both individuals functioning within type G -Healthy and within type S -Savings display a positive, healthy attitude towards work and more frequently possess "strong personality traits," according to the classification constructed by Peterson and Seligman [28,29]. Individuals functioning within type S -Savings more frequently cope with work-related problems by using the strategy of avoidance and resignation [19].…”

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Types of work-related behavior and experiences and stress coping strategies among single mothers and mothers in relationships differentiating role of work satisfaction

Napora¹,

Andruszkiewicz²,

Basińska³

2017

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: The purpose of the study has been to describe functioning of single and mothers in relationships (married or in informal relationships) at work and verify if the declared degree of work satisfaction differentiates types of behavior at work and stress coping strategies in both groups of mothers. Material and Methods: The study was conducted on equal samples of single mothers (N = 186) and mothers from 2-parent families (N = 186) using Latack Coping Scale that measures work-related stress coping strategies, the AVEM (Arbeitsbezogenes Verhaltens-und Erlebensmuster -Work-Related Behavior and Experience Pattern) questionnaire, and a survey. It showed similarity between the studied groups in terms of the measured variables. Results: There were considerable differences between single and married mothers in terms of support seeking strategies. The interaction of work satisfaction and the type of motherhood significantly differentiates (p = 0.03) the avoidance strategy of resignation. Conclusions: That strategy of resignation was more frequently used by single mothers with lower work satisfaction, who were distinctly different from those whose work satisfaction was higher, and from the mothers in relationships (married or in informal relationships) (regardless of the level of their work satisfaction). Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2018;31(1):55 -69

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“…Furthermore, different character strengths were meaningfully associated with different work-related behavior. For example, perseverance, zest, and love of learning showed the numerically strongest relationships with career ambition, and employees with higher scores in the character strengths (e.g., hope, zest, bravery, and perspective) tended to have healthier work behavior (Gander et al, 2012). Harzer and Ruch (2014) reported various, replicable associations between character strengths and self- and supervisory ratings of different dimensions of job performance (i.e., task performance, job dedication, interpersonal facilitation, as well as organizational support).…”

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The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction

2015

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Personality traits have often been highlighted to relate to how people cope with stressful events. The present paper focuses on character strengths as positive personality traits and examines two basic assumptions that were derived from a core characteristic of character strengths (i.e., to determine how individuals deal with adversities): (1) character strengths correlate with coping and (2) buffer the effects of work-related stress on job satisfaction. Two different samples (i.e., a mixed sample representing various occupations [N = 214] and a nurses sample [N = 175]) filled in measures for character strengths, coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction. As expected, intellectual, emotional, and interpersonal strengths were related to coping. Interpersonal strengths played a greater role for coping among nurses, as interactions with others are an essential part of their workday. Furthermore, intellectual strengths partially mediated the negative effect of work-related stress on job satisfaction. These findings open a new field for research on the role of personality in coping with work-related stress. Character strengths are trainable personal characteristics, and therefore valuable resources to improve coping with work-related stress and to decrease the negative effects of stress. Further research is needed to investigate this assumed causality.

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The good character at work: an initial study on the contribution of character strengths in identifying healthy and unhealthy work-related behavior and experience patterns

Cited by 72 publications

References 42 publications

Walking on the sunny side: What positive psychology can contribute to psychiatric rehabilitation concepts and practice.

Walking on the sunny side: What positive psychology can contribute to psychiatric rehabilitation concepts and practice.

Types of work-related behavior and experiences and stress coping strategies among single mothers and mothers in relationships differentiating role of work satisfaction

The relationships of character strengths with coping, work-related stress, and job satisfaction

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