Positive personality traits; Adolescent; Character strengths
积极人格特质; 青少年; 品格优点
Abstract:
Objective: (1) to investigate the university students’the characteristics of character strength and the Trans- Culture comparison; (2) To discuss the Adolescent’ character difference among different mental health status of Adolescent. Methods: Value In Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS),SCL-90 was administrated to a random sample of 502undergraduate students. Results: (1) The 24 Character Strengths scored between 3~4, the average score was from 3.25 (faith) to 3.93 (honest); (2) for the 24 character strength, Chinese men make a score from3.22 (spirituality) ~3.96 (honesty), the English scores from 2.77 (spirituality)~3.95(judgment),Chinese men scores higher, and the Chinese women scores from 3.19(perspective~3.93(love), the English female is from 2.90 (spirituality) ~3.97 (kindness). The scores are almost the same, as well as the graphic display tendency; (3) There are significant differences between Adolescent with good state of mind and Character Strengths and worse psychological health students in 10 character strengths such as Courage, tolerance, honesty, hope, etc. (p< 0.05) Conclusion: (1) university students’ character strength develops in the medium.(2) character strength distribution has the Trans-Culture uniformity.(3) the good psychological health students have better characters than worse psychological health students.
目的:(1)探讨青少年的积极人格特质的发展特点及跨文化异同性。(2)比较不同心理健康状况的青少年,其品格优点的差异。方法:采用品格优点问卷(VIA-IS)、症状自评量表90项(SCL-90)对随机抽取的502名青少年进行调查评估并进行统计分析,统计方法包括描述性分析、T检验、Spearman相关分析等。结果:(1)青少年24项积极人格特质的平均分从3.25(信念)到3.93(诚实),最突出的五项分别为:诚实(3.93±0.40)、爱的能力(3.91±0.48)、公平(3.90±0.47)、善良(3.86±0.46)和感恩(3.82±0.52);(2)中国男性24项品格优点的得分从3.22(信念)~3.96(诚实),英国男生为2.77(信念)~3.95(判断力),中国男生得分普遍高,而中国女生的得分3.19(洞察力)~3.93(爱的能力),英国女生则是从2.90(信念)~3.97(善良),得分高低的特质项目相当,且图表显示分布趋势大体一致;(3)心理健康状况较好的青少年的勇气、宽容、诚实、希望等10项品格优点与心理健康状况较差的青少年存在显著差异(p<0.05)。结论:(1)青少年品格优点发展处于中等偏上水平且较均衡;(2)品格优点分布具有跨文化一致性;(3)心理健康状况较好的青少年较心理健康状况差者的品格优点更为突出。