Positive Psychology in a Nutshell by Ilona Boniwell

Author:Ilona Boniwell
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780335247219
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2012-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

• Human strengths are not secondary to weaknesses, illusory or epiphenomenal.

• We can understand human strengths scientifically.

• Human strengths are individual differences between people.

• Human strengths are similar to traits, but can also be influenced by environmental factors.

At first, Peterson and Seligman tried to locate all possible strengths through various means, including: brainstorming among the leading scholars, discussion with participants at psychological conferences, and surveying psychological, philosophical and other literature that addresses good character.

Then, faced with hundreds of possible candidates for character strengths, they applied several criteria to distil the main strengths, which they believed to be universal. There are ten such criteria, but the most notable are the following (Peterson & Seligman, 2004):

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