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What do you value most in life? [quiz]

Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

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A character virtue is a core characteristic in human nature. Cross-cultural research has found that character virtues are grounded in biology, as they are the characteristics of humanity that survived the evolutionary process because they aid us in solving important tasks necessary for survival of the species. The six character virtues defined by psychologists are wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Everyday choices are guided by a person’s strongest character virtue, and show what they value most in life. This personality quiz,based on a psychometrically validated personality test developed by expert psychologists, will help you discover what your defining character virtue is and how it can help guide your future life choices.

Questions adapted from Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

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Christopher Peterson was Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. One of the world's most highly cited research psychologists and a founder of the field of positive psychology, Peterson was best-known for his studies of optimism and character strengths and their relationship to psychological and physical well-being. He was a frequent blogger for Psychology Today.

Martin Seligman is Director of the Penn Positive Psychology Center, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Penn Department of Psychology, and Director of the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP). Seligman is a leading authority in the fields of Positive Psychology, resilience, learned helplessness, depression, optimism and pessimism. He has written more than 275 scholarly publications and 25 books, including Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness.

Stephanie King is a Marketing Assistant at Oxford University Press.

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Recent Comments

  1. Martin Smith

    This was an odd quiz. For several questions there was no way of ranking the responses because all or almost all were true and equally so. The result I was given gave me nothing I didn’t already know.

  2. Therese

    So apparently I value transcendence which is like being supernatural????

  3. Fredy

    Thank you for this free quiz. The quiz reconfirmed of what I knew about myself. This is a very good thing. I know I am on track. I got transcendence. I value strengths that forge connections to the larger universe and provide meaning to my life. In my case I have always been moved towards spirituality and I have chosen a religion that I love. But transcendence can mean different things to everybody now and day’s. Especially because many people have different values. Back in the day’s that would have been called having “different gods”. I will research right now some more. Very interesting……

  4. Ketsia

    In life I believe that we’re not supposed to do revenge because it changes them once I had the worst manager I can say and she hated me for nothing just because our countries don’t get along she thought we couldn’t get along but she ask me a favor of buying her a drink thinking I couldn’t but I did it because I know it’s the worst revenge that helps and it actually touched we started getting along so we need to stop thinking about revenge

  5. Shuvo Dev

     Wisdom and knowledge
    You value the acquisition and use of information in the service of the good life. You have a strong alignment with cognitive strengths.

    So that’s why I have always been such a bookworm

  6. whitney Dunning

    I like this because to me it helps me fide what person I am.

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