Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda.
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| Title: | Character strengths and well-being: Establishing a measurement model and exploring the interrelations among youth in Uganda. |
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| Authors: | Tirrell, Jonathan M. (AUTHOR), Keces, Natasha (AUTHOR), Abbasi-Asl, Roya (AUTHOR), Dowling, Elizabeth M. (AUTHOR), Hasse, Alexa (AUTHOR), Mackin, Margaret (AUTHOR), Olander, Kirsten (AUTHOR), Douglas, Kiana (AUTHOR), Kibbedi, Patience N. (AUTHOR), Wanyama, Jane R. (AUTHOR), Lerner, Jacqueline V. (AUTHOR), Sim, Alistair T. R. (AUTHOR), Lerner, Richard M. (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of Moral Education. Dec2025, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p632-663. 32p. |
| Subjects: | Well-being, Youth development, Measurement-model comparison, Psychometrics, Virtues, Statistical correlation |
| Geographic Terms: | Uganda |
| Abstract: | Youth development programs in the majority world are increasingly taking a strengths-based, positive youth development (PYD) approach to promoting youth thriving. Although character strengths are believed to support well-being, more evidence from majority-world contexts is needed. Using data derived from the Compassion International Study of PYD in Uganda (n = 606, Mage = 12.5 years, SDage = 2.3, 50.2% female), we validated a measurement model of eight specific character strengths—goal selection, optimization, and compensation; hopeful future expectations; transcendence; contribution/generosity; forgiveness; love; gratitude; and purpose—and assessed their relations to well-being. Character strengths were robustly and positively correlated with well-being, with gratitude, love, and hopeful future expectations consistently demonstrating the strongest correlations with well-being. Both consistency and differences in interrelations emerged across subgroups. These findings provide initial evidence of an ecologically valid and psychometrically strong measurement model that can be used in majority-world countries for assessing character strengths and their relation to well-being and thriving in PYD programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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