Character Strengths and University Success
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Running head: PSYCHOLOGYHow might a focus on character strengths lead to positive outcomes for a student in their firstyear at university?Name of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1PSYCHOLOGYFocus on character strengths leads to positive outcome for a student in their first year atuniversity.IntroductionCharacter strengths are mainly the basis of optimum life-long developments as well asthriving. A family of productive traits that are reflected in one’s thought, feelings and behaviors can be said as good characters (Park & Peterson, 2009). However, many researchesgive a clear result that character strengths are associated to important features of individual aswell as social well-beings while different strengths forecast different aftermath. DiscussionIn everyday interaction, people mostly talk modestly and reluctantly about their strengths. This hesitance to talk about the strengths is greatly contemplated in psychology where strengths would have been the issue of very little logical empirical research. In a study by Gustems-Carnicer & Calderón done in 2016, mainly defines, analyzes and evaluates the character strengths along with virtues and coping strategies of the college students. However, positive correlations have been found among the six virtues and three of the coping strategies after the collection of data from ninety-one college students. In 2009, another study done by Lounsbury et al., which researched on the graduate students about their values that are in action character strengths in association with two of the indices academic victories which arestudent satisfaction as well as grade point average. However, the results are explained from the outlook of the lifespan development, behavior of the college student, and theory of identity, ‘emerging adulthood’, and big five-personality model and personality research on individual’s satisfaction in life. Therefore, this study has further indicated through its analysisof the data collected that character strengths are definitely associated to the academic victory
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