The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (VIA-Youth) is a self-report inventory assessing 24 character strengths among people 10–17 years of age. This paper describes the adaptation and initial validation of a German version of this measure utilizing several samples (in total N = 2,110 self-reports of participants aged 10–17 years, 56.5% girls; N = 219 parent-reports) from Germany ...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to examine how anger, temperament and character profiles differ across subtypes of eating disorders (EDs) in comparison to healthy controls and to analyze the relationship between anger expression, eating attitudes and personality dimensions. METHOD One hundred and thirty-five outpatients (50 of whom suffered from anorexia nervosa restrictor type [AN-R], 40 f...

OBJECTIVE The serotonin system has long been of interest in biological models of human personality. The purpose of this positron emission tomography (PET) study was to search for relationships between serotonin 5-HT(1A) receptor density and personality traits. METHOD Fifteen normal male subjects, ages 20-45 years, were examined with PET and the radioligand [(11)C]WAY100635. Personality traits...

The present study investigated the role of 24 character strengths in 87 adolescent romantic relationships focusing on their role in partner selection and their role in mates' life satisfaction. Measures included the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth, the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale, and an Ideal Partner Profiler for the composition of an ideal partner. Honesty, humor, and ...

Let M be a compact manifold with boundary. If M is connected, let XC(M) be the SL2(C)–character variety of M. If not, take XC(M) to be the cartesian product of the character varieties of its components. Throughout, S is a closed connected oriented hyperbolic surface, T(S) its Teichmüller space. By the Uniformization Theorem, T(S) is both the space of marked conformal structures on S and the spa...

Method Participants were 316 ED patients. The EATATE part 1 (a semi-structured interview) was used to examine diagnostic cross-over in EDs. The Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI-2), Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-R), Oxford Risk Factor Interview (ORFI), the EATATE part 2 [used to assess obsessive-compulsive personality (OCPD) traits and impulsive behaviours] and four candidate genes (5-H...