Character Strengths and Virtues
Subtitle: A Handbook and Classification
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; American Psychological Association; Oxford University Press
Published: March 11, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780195167016
First sentence: The classification of strengths presented in this book is intended to reclaim the study of character and virtue as legitimate topics of psychological inquiry and informed societal discourse.
Description: This groundbreaking handbook of character strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers who have undertaken the systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. They approach good character in terms of separate strengths- authenticity, persistence, kindness, gratitude, hope, humor, and so on- each of which exists in degrees.