Character strengths in children and adolescents: Reliability and initial validity of the german values in action inventory of strengths for youth (German VIA-Youth)

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-64

  Ruch, Willibald ^a   Weber, Marco ^a   Park, Nansook ^b   Peterson, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Character strengths; Children; Positive psychology; VIA Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892638442     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: 21512426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000169     Document Type: Article

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