1. Revising the VIA-Youth: I. Development and interrater convergence.
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Jermann, Melissa and McGrath, Robert E.
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PARENTS , *SELF-evaluation , *RESEARCH methodology evaluation , *POSITIVE psychology , *AGE distribution , *CHARACTER , *EXPERIMENTAL design , *TEACHERS , *RESEARCH methodology , *INTER-observer reliability ,RESEARCH evaluation - Abstract
The VIA-Youth (Park & Peterson, 2006) is perhaps the most commonly administered youth measure of the Peterson and Seligman (2004) character strengths. This article is the first in a series describing revision of the VIA-Youth, with the goals of making the development process more transparent, targeting scale unidimensionality, achieving measurement invariance, and extending the age range to 8–17. A sample of 286 youth in three countries completed 198 candidate items, from which a 98-item inventory was developed. Ratings of strengths were provided for 250 of the youth by 202 parents and 164 teachers. The relative size of relationships between informants was related to youth age, and to ratings of the observability and evaluativeness of the strengths, in the expected direction. The findings suggest youth self-report of character strengths and ratings by significant others are not highly related, but are consistent with prior studies of informant convergence in youth ratings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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