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The VIA Survey of Character Strengths is a free self-assessment that takes less than 15 minutes and provides a wealth of information to help you understand your best qualities. VIA Reports provide personalized, in-depth analysis of your free results, including actionable tips to apply your strengths to find greater well-being.
Why Do Character Strengths Matter?
Character strengths are the positive parts of your personality that make you feel authentic and engaged. You possess all 24 character strengths in different degrees, giving you a unique character strengths profile. Research shows that understanding and applying your strengths can help:
- Boost Confidence
- Increase Happiness
- Strengthen Relationships
- Manage Problems
- Reduce Stress
- Accomplish Goals
- Build Meaning and Purpose
- Improve Work Performance
Discover your greatest qualities and begin using your strengths to build your best life.
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Intentions and actions that benefit both the individual and others
How do you define character?
We define character as everything we do to help other people as well as ourselves.
As an organizing principle, we separate character strengths into three dimensions. Strengths of heart, such as gratitude, enable harmonious relationships with other people. Strengths of will, such as grit and self-control, enable achievement. Strengths of mind, such as curiosity, enable independent thinking.
Character Lab also recognizes and supports a diversity of frameworks including SEL, whole child, and 21st-century skills.
Character Count
Strengths of heart
- Interpersonal
- Help us relate to other people in positive ways
- Examples: gratitude, kindness
Strengths of mind
- Intellectual
- Help us wonder, reason, and create
- Examples: curiosity, creativity
Strengths of will
- Intrapersonal
- Help us achieve our goals
- Examples: grit, self-control
Why character?
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
Overwhelming scientific evidence now shows that character strengths like self-control, curiosity, and gratitude are critically important to social and emotional well-being, physical health, and achievement. Although character strengths are malleable, surprisingly little is known about how to cultivate them intentionally.
How can we cultivate character?
At Character Lab, we believe that helping children develop character is an age-old challenge that will yield to a new solution: world-class scientists creating actionable resources for educators, parents, coaches, counselors, and anyone else interested in helping kids thrive. For more, read our Playbooks and Tips of the Week.
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Character Strength Posters
Character Reference Letter
Printable 11×17 posters for your classroom or office
Research articles about character
A tripartite taxonomy of character: Evidence for intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intellectual competencies in children
Contemporary Educational Psychology, 48, 16–27.
Park, D., Tsukayama, E., Goodwin, G. P., Patrick, S., & Duckworth, A. L. (2017).
Character Name Generator
Integrating psychological and cultural perspectives on virtue: The hierarchical structure of character strengths
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 10(5), 407–424. McGrath, R. E. (2015).
Character Map
The myth of achievement tests: The GED and the role of character in American life Heckman, J., Humphries, J. E., & Kautz, T. (Eds.). (2013). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.