AP PSYCHOLOGY

MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Brdar, Anic and Rijavec’s study of gender differences and character strengths, women scored highest in:
A
Honesty, Hope, humor, gratitude and curiosity
B
Teamwork, kindeness, perspective and courage
C
Honesty, Kindness, love, gratitude and justice
D
Love, teamwork, creativity, appreciation of beauty and excellence
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Positive Psychology’s Six Virtues The 24 character strengths are organized under the six virtues of: wisdom and knowledge; humanity; justice; courage; temperance; and transcendence. Wisdom and Knowledge – Strengths of wisdom and knowledge are cognitive strengths related to the acquisition and use of information.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women and men differed significantly in ten character strengths, but they did not differ in their life satisfaction. Five highest-weighted strengths for women were integrity, kindness, love, gratitude, and fairness, while men weighed highest the strengths of integrity, hope, humor, gratitude, and curiosity.

Detailed explanation-3: -The VIA Classification Measurement For example, in studies on American adolescents, Park and Peterson (2006b) identified four factors in the VIA-Youth, which they termed Temperance, Intellectual, Other-Directed, and Transcendence.

Detailed explanation-4: -The framework offers cognitive strengths (under the virtue of wisdom), emotional strengths (courage), social & community strengths (humanity & justice), protective strengths (temperance), and spiritual strengths (transcendence).

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