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Rev Mex Invest Psic 2015; 7 (2)

Character strengths from gender perspective: a pilot study with Spanish population

Ovejero BMM, Cardenal HV

Language: Spanish
References: 71
Page: 72-92
PDF size: 195.54 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the optimal psychological functioning. From a practical perspective, it seeks to understand and analyze the conditions, processes and mechanisms that lead to a fulfilling life. The book that established the foundations for the study of human strengths was published in the year 2004. Character Strengths and Virtues is the other side of the coin, a handbook to classify human potential and the piece that was missing in the traditional psychopathological model. The handbook proposes that there are 6 virtues and 24 strengths. The Values In Action model is also a new way of evaluating the positive traits of people. Employed in this research, the VIA-IS (Peterson & Seligman, 2004) is a questionnaire which evaluates in detail each of the proposed strengths. Studies conducted with this model show that there are differences between men and women in human strengths, although there is not a single published work analyzing the relationship between gender roles and the strengths. Therefore, it is of importance to study if social differences between men and women are influencing human strengths. The present paper uses the questionnaire of Mahalik y colegas (2003; 2005): CFNI (for women) and CMNI (for men). The main conclusions of this study confirm the existence of differences between men and women in some of the strengths; these differences had an effect size between small and moderate. In the case of femininity, there are positive relationships between this construct and human strengths; in the case of masculinity, the relations are negative.


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