VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA Survey of Character Strengths).
VIA-IS
- What it measures
- 24 character strengths organized under 6 virtues (Wisdom, Courage, Humanity, Justice, Temperance, Transcendence) - the positive-psychology classification of character.
- Length and format
- 240 (10 per strength); 120-item and 96-item short forms exist. 5-point Likert (very much like me -> very much unlike me) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 40+ languages incl. ES, FR, DE, ZH, JP, PT, NL, IT, AR, RU.
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. APA/Oxford. https://www.viacharacter.org/researchers/assessments
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