The Influence of College Students’ Character Strengths on the Recovery Experience from the Perspective of Strengths Use

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Yuan Yue ◽  
Liu Huiyue ◽  
Yang Cui ◽  
Yu Xuan ◽  
Chang Jing
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Strengths Use

The Buffering Effect of Character Strengths on Depression

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Beatrice Lee ◽  
Cahit Kaya ◽  
Xiangli Chen ◽  
Jia-Rung Wu ◽  
Kanako Iwanaga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Attributional Style ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Empirically Supported ◽  
High School To College ◽  
Transition From High School ◽  
Adjustment Issues ◽  
Negative Attributional Style

Abstract. The transition from high school to college can be very stressful for Turkish students because they may experience value conflicts and adjustment issues, which can trigger the development of mental health problems. Character strengths can serve as a buffer against psychopathology. The aim of the study was to examine perceived stress and negative attributional style as mediating factors between character strengths and depression among Turkish college students. Bootstrap testing approach was implemented to compute direct and indirect effects and total effect in the mediation analysis. Altogether 235 students from two Turkish universities participated in the study. The results showed that character strengths were associated with lower levels of depression and it was negatively associated with perceived stress and negative attributional style. The results also indicated that perceived stress and negative attribution style completely mediated the relationship between character strengths and depression among Turkish college students. These findings suggested the need to develop empirically supported interventions that can promote character strengths toward reducing stress, negative attributions, and depression in this population.

The Role of Character Strengths and Family Importance on Mexican American College Students’ Life Satisfaction

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier C. Vela ◽  
Gregory Scott Sparrow ◽  
James Ikonomopoulos ◽  
Stacey L. Gonzalez ◽  
Basilio Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Character Strengths

Character Strengths and First-Year College Students’ Academic Persistence Attitudes: An Integrative Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 608-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon R. Browning ◽  
Ryon C. McDermott ◽  
Marjorie E. Scaffa ◽  
Nathan R. Booth ◽  
Nicole T. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Integration ◽  
Student Persistence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Institutional Commitment ◽  
First Year

Higher education scholars produce the majority of research on student persistence. However, counseling psychologists may be uniquely situated to help students persist toward graduation by enhancing strengths. The present study integrated counseling and higher education models to examine college students’ character strengths (i.e., hope and gratitude) as predictors of student persistence variables (i.e., academic integration and institutional commitment). Drawing on higher education theories of persistence, we examined the mediating effects of academic integration on the associations between character strengths and institutional commitment among first-year undergraduate students ( N = 653). Controlling for social support, greater academic integration mediated the associations between character strengths and institutional commitment in a structural equation model. Consistent with higher education theories emphasizing academic integration as a precursor to institutional commitment, character strengths may be important for understanding academic integration and persistence. Implications for prevention and the integration of counseling psychology and higher education perspectives are discussed.

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