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Why does Character Matter?

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  • Work
  • politics
  • relationships
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What are character strength?

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  • something that we excel at
  • we all have a diffrent combination of chatacter strengths
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Job require character strengths for example…

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Teachers need tp be patient and fair

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When evaluating dating profiles people looked at 2 things….

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  • character strengths
  • and photos
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What perdicts greater relatioship satisfaction, commtiment, and intimacy

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  • greater appreciation of partners strengths
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diffrence between personality and character

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character: all of an individual’s attributes, personality traits, including moral, social, and religious
- charcter has moral, social and religious
personality is part of character

personality is part of character

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What did selligman say about Character strengths?

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  • character strengths are the back bone of PERMA
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What are arisotle’s views on charcter?

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  • Good chracter leads ot eudaimonia) which is the highest good.
  • charcter are virtues that move people to have good character

patience, courage, justice

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What is the Virtue continuum?

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  • not too much, and not too little of a character strength
  • nothing is in defiency, or excess.
  • ## only the golden mean
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What is Virtue Theory?

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  • Wellbeing is the result of cultivating virtues of character
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What are the Medival Christians views on character

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  • cardinal Virtues
  • therological virtues
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What are Cardinla Virtues?

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  • fortitude
  • justice
  • wisdom
  • moderation
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What are the three theological virtues?

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  • charity
  • faith
  • hope
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What are the four components of character?

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  • talents
  • virtues
  • strengths
  • values
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What is Donal Cliftons talents perspective?

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  • we should focus on strengths, and not weakness
  • he tried to work on people’s ability to speed read.
  • some were talented, some weren’t
  • no matter how he taught people they imporved as long as they were talented
  • the sucky speed reader just coulnd’t catch on
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What are Talents?

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  • naturally recurring patterns of thoughts, feeling, or behavious that can be productivly applied in some life domain.
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What did Clifton and Colleauges do with the highest performing workplace individuals

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  • the interviewed them
  • wanted to know why they excell
  • develop an online assessment intrument to organize talents into 34 teams
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How is the Clifton strengths Finder organized?

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  • pair of slef descriotors achoring two oppositde ends of continuim
  • contains 177 items
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What is strength in Clifton’s perspective?

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  • a combination of
    innate talent, knowledge, and skill
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Some talents not in Clifton’s strength Finder

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  • music
  • arts
  • athletic ability
  • being good with animals
  • comdeic ability
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Values in Action (VIA) classification system

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  • wisdom
  • humanity
  • justice
  • temperance
  • trascendence
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Why doesn’t seligman consider talents part of character?

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  • because it lacks a moral component
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What is a probelm with the VIA system?

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  • lack of specificty
  • too abstract

ex. transcendence through religion or nature?

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How do character strengths and virtues relate?

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Character strengths are the psychological indegrdients tat allow people to live according to virtues

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What are signature strengths?
- strengths that appear towards top of our survey reuslts
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What are requirments for something to be your signature strengths?
- must feel like you - feel joy and enthusiasm when using strength - rapid learning curve when strength is first displayed - do projects the use your goals
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What are strength based interventions?
- idenitfy signature strengths and use them in a new way - -ex. usually see a nice flower on way to work, and you apppreciate it's beauty.... that would be aprreciation of beauty but now you use it when you go the meusuem
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What happens when you use your signature strength in a new way?
- people reported feeling happierover a longer time.
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What is the awaeness of strength study?
- people journaled 5 weeks before start of exams. - they would either have to write about strengths, weaknesses, or neutral
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What did the awareness of strengths study show?
people in the strength condition were more - optimistim - higher wellbeing - less distressed - lower negative affect - and more realxed than those who in other 2 conditions
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In the awareness of strength test, non of conditioned differed on
positive affect self esterrm pessimism
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Strength deployment and mood test
- behavioural science students rated how much they use each of 24 strengths for 2 weeks. - and compared it to their mood today
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What did the strength deployment and mood study find?
- more you used the strength, the better the mode the next day - if mood was low, they use thier strengths as a mood repair strategy
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According to Park et al. (2004), which character strengths are more strongly linked to life satisfaction, and which are less strongly linked?
More strongly linked (strengths of the heart): Hope, zest, gratitude, curiosity, love Less strongly linked (more eudaimonic): Appreciation of beauty, creativity, judgment, love of learning, modesty
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What did Park et al find in relation to what aristotle said?
- there was no evidence that suggested it dangerous to have high levels of character strengths - people who had high levels of wide variety of strengths were more satiffied with thier lives than those with lower levels. | This is the oppsite of what aristotle predicted
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Can talents and character strengths be used for harm?
- values don't always have to be positive - values are are hte bottom of herirachy - values determine how we use character stregths **pyramid goes ** PERMA C.S Values
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WHat is Shwartz's values circumplex?
- it has 2 dimensions - - if you hold a value, you are more likley to disagree on the one across from it
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The Schwartz Value Survey
- contains two sets of items - 30 nouns - 27 adjectives
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What is the theorized purpose of value?
- to bind culutres together
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What did Park and Seligman find about comparing basic virtues and character strengths?
- Found overlap between the US and many nations
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What did the character strength study by robert FIND?
- forgivness is not present enough in society - everything else is high endorsed

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