ParNansook Park, Christopher Peterson et Martin E.P. Seligman
Park, N., Peterson, C., & Seligman, ME (2004). Forces de caractère et bien-être. Journal de psychologie sociale et clinique , 23 (5), 603-619.
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.