Character Strengths Among Youth
dc.contributor.author | Steen, Tracy A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Peterson, Christopher | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kachorek, Lauren V. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:53:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:53:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-02 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Steen, Tracy A.; Kachorek, Lauren V.; Peterson, Christopher; (2003). "Character Strengths Among Youth." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 32(1): 5-16. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45293> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-6601 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0047-2891 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45293 | |
dc.description.abstract | Four hundred and fiftynine students from 20 different high school classrooms in Michigan participated in focus group discussions about the character strengths included in the Values in Action Classification. Students were interested in the subject of good character and able to discuss with candor and sophistication instances of each strength. They were especially drawn to the positive traits of leadership, practical intelligence, wisdom, social intelligence, love of learning, spirituality, and the capacity to love and be loved. Students believed that strengths were largely acquired rather than innate and that these strengths developed through ongoing life experience as opposed to formal instruction. They cited an almost complete lack of contemporary role models exemplifying different strengths of character. Implications of these findings for the quantitative assessment of positive traits were discussed, as were implications for designing character education programs for adolescents. We suggest that peers can be an especially important force in encouraging the development and display of good character among youth. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Clinical Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Developmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Youth | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Focus Groups | en_US |
dc.subject.other | High School | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Character | en_US |
dc.title | Character Strengths Among Youth | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45293/1/10964_2004_Article_379439.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021024205483 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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