Shoshani Anat, Shwartz Lior
Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel.
Front Psychol. 2018 Nov 2;9:2123. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02123. eCollection 2018.
Although research on character strengths has flourished in recent years, the paucity of suitable quantitative instruments for the assessment of children's character strengths limits the study of character development in childhood. The Character Strengths Inventory for Children (CSI-C) is a new self-report character inventory for children that was designed for easy administration directly to elementary school-aged children. The CSI-C provides an evaluation of 24 character strengths defined in Peterson and Seligman's Values in Action Classification of Strengths. Data from two samples of 2,061 Israeli children aged 7-12 support the constructs of the instrument. Principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of the 96 CSI-C items revealed preliminary evidence for a hierarchical structure with 24 lower factors nested within four higher-order latent factors: interpersonal, transcendence, intellectual, and temperance strengths. Children's interpersonal and temperance strengths were negatively associated with mental health difficulties, and their temperance and transcendence strengths were positively associated with subjective well-being. The intellectual and temperance strengths were correlated with children's school functioning and grit. The potential uses of the CSI-C in research and practice are discussed.
尽管近年来关于性格优势的研究蓬勃发展，但用于评估儿童性格优势的合适定量工具的匮乏限制了对儿童期性格发展的研究。儿童性格优势量表（CSI-C）是一种新的针对儿童的自我报告性格量表，设计用于直接方便地施测于小学年龄段的儿童。CSI-C对彼得森和塞利格曼的《行动价值观优势分类》中定义的24种性格优势进行评估。来自2061名7至12岁以色列儿童的两个样本的数据支持了该量表的结构。对96个CSI-C项目进行主成分分析和验证性因素分析，揭示了一个层次结构的初步证据，其中24个较低层次的因素嵌套在四个高阶潜在因素中：人际、超越、智力和节制优势。儿童的人际和节制优势与心理健康问题呈负相关，他们的节制和超越优势与主观幸福感呈正相关。智力和节制优势与儿童的学校表现和毅力相关。本文还讨论了CSI-C在研究和实践中的潜在用途。
