How Do Your Character Strengths Contribute to the Good Life?
Park et al investigated the relationship between various character strengths and life satisfaction among 5,299 adults. Strengths of hope, zest, gratitude, love, and curiosity were most strongly associated with life satisfaction, with appreciation of beauty, creativity, judgement, and love of learning being weakly associated with life satisfaction.
Strengths of Character and Wellbeing
We investigated the relationship between various character strengths and life satisfaction among 5,299 adults from three Internet samples using the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths. Consistently and robustly associated with life satisfaction were hope, zest, gratitude, love, and curiosity. Only weakly associated with life satisfaction, in contrast, were modesty and the intellectual strengths of appreciation of beauty, creativity, judgment, and love of learning. In general, the relationship between character strengths and life satisfaction was monotonic, indicating that excess on any one character strength does not diminish life satisfaction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Park, N., Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004) Strengths of Character and Well-Being. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23(5), 603–619.