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

• Published in: Applied Research in Quality of Life Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 349 - 367
• Main Authors: Gander, Fabian, Hofmann, Jennifer, Proyer, René T., Ruch, Willibald
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Changes; Correlation analysis; Cross-sectional studies; Intervention; Measures; Personality; Personality traits; Political Science; Quality of Life Research; Social Sciences; Sociology; Spirituality; Stability; Well being; Malleability; VIA-IS; Well-being; Stability; CSRF; Character strengths

Character strengths are positively valued personality traits that are assumed to be stable across time and situations, but also malleable due to cultivation or deliberate intervention. Also, studies showed that character strengths are robustly related to well-being. Consequently, character strengths...