Gender and Psychological Correlates of Self-rated Strengths Among Youth

Character Strengths and Life Satisfaction of Teachers in Ghana

“…This finding is similar to that of Linley et al (2007) but inconsistent with Neto et al (2014) even though the analytical approaches were different. Whereas the present study examined the predictive power of age in relation to overall character strengths, Neto et al (2014) examined it in relation to the strength dimensions and found that age negatively predicted temperance strengths. Linley et al (2007) also examined age in relation to the individual strengths and found that age strongly predicts curiosity and love of learning, fairness, forgiveness, and self-regulation.…”

“…The fact that prudence, humour, modesty, self-regulation and love are predictive of life satisfaction (as revealed by the further regression analysis) seems not to be clearly supported by any found study as most of the previous studies did not examine the predictive power of the individual strengths but the strength dimensions in relation to life satisfaction (e.g., (Chan, 2009;Neto et al, 2014)). However, it was surprising that humour and modesty made negative contributions to life satisfaction and that prudence made the largest unique contributions to life satisfaction.…”

“…Few previous studies have examined this. For example, the study of Neto et al (2014) revealed that age significantly (negatively) predicted Temperance strengths among young participants in Portugal. Linley et al (2007) study also revealed positive associations between character strengths and age, with the strongest effects showing for curiosity and love of learning, fairness, forgiveness, and self-regulation.…”

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“…The fact that prudence, humour, modesty, self-regulation and love are predictive of life satisfaction (as revealed by the further regression analysis) seems not to be clearly supported by any found study as most of the previous studies did not examine the predictive power of the individual strengths but the strength dimensions in relation to life satisfaction (e.g., (Chan, 2009;Neto et al, 2014)). However, it was surprising that humour and modesty made negative contributions to life satisfaction and that prudence made the largest unique contributions to life satisfaction.…”

Relationship between character strengths and personality traits

“…Neuroticism is associated with levels of personal adjustment and emotional instability, mainly regarding self-perception self-esteem and the way the individual responds to emotional distress; it may include vulnerable, depressive, and anxious individuals or restrained and peaceful ones. As for the relationships between the constructs, which were investigated by the two instruments used in the present study, other studies have found that creative and curious people showed high levels of Openness to experiences and agreeableness (King, Walker, & Broyles, 1996;J. Neto, Neto, & Furnham, 2014).…”