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The VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS), formerly known as the "Values in Action Inventory," is a proprietary psychological assessment measure designed to identify an individual's profile of character strengths. It was created by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, well-known researchers in the field of positive psychology, in order to operationalize their Character Strengths and Virtues Handbook (CSV). The CSV is the positive psychology counterpart to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) used in traditional psychology. Unlike the DSM, which scientifically categorizes human deficits and disorders, the CSV classifies positive human strengths. Moreover, the CSV is centered on helping people recognize and build upon their strengths. This aligned with the overall goal of the positive psychology movement, which aims to make people's lives more fulfilling, rather than simply treating mental illness. Notably, the VIA-IS is the tool by which people can identify their own positive strengths and learn how to capitalize on them.

positive psychology psychological assessment via-is

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  1. http://www.viacharacter.org/viainstitute/classification.aspx
  2. Peterson & Seligman. (2004). Character strengths and virtues: a handbook and classification. Washington, DC: APA Press.
  3. Linley, Maltby, Wood, Joseph, Harrington, Peterson & Seligman. (2007). Character strengths in the United Kingdom: The VIA inventory of strengths. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(3), 341-351.
  4. Shryack, Jessica; Steger, Michael F.; Krueger, Robert F.; Kallie, Christopher S. (April 2010). "The structure of virtue: An empirical investigation of the dimensionality of the virtues in action inventory of strengths". Personality and Individual Differences 48 (6): 714–719. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.007.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.paid.2010.01.007
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  8. Park, Peterson & Seligman. (2004). Strengths of character and well-being. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23, 603–619.
  9. Shimai, Otake, Park, Peterson & Seligman. (2007). Convergence of character strengths in American and Japanese young adults, Journal of Happiness Studies, 7, 311–322.
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  13. Ng, Vincent; Cao, Mengyang; Marsh, Herbert W.; Tay, Louis; Seligman, Martin E. P. (August 2017). "The factor structure of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS): An item-level exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) bifactor analysis.". Psychological Assessment 29 (8): 1053–1058. doi:10.1037/pas0000396.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1037%2Fpas0000396
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