ISBN: 9780549802105

The positive psychology constructs of virtue and character strengths, in addition to coping, were examined in relation to quality of life, using a sample of 95 individuals with chronic il… Más…

The positive psychology constructs of virtue and character strengths, in addition to coping, were examined in relation to quality of life, using a sample of 95 individuals with chronic illness and disability. Participants completed the Sense of Well-Being Inventory-Revised (SWBI-R), Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOCQ), and a newly developed bipolar scale of character strengths. Preliminary factor analysis was conducted on participant responses to the 24 character strength items to identify underlying virtue factors, and three factors or subscales were identified and labeled as positive harmony, self-cultivation, and practical wisdom.;Participants were clustered, using Ward's hierarchical agglomerative clustering method, on the basis of their profiles of SWBI-R subscale scores, and three clusters were identified and labeled as balanced quality of life, low quality of life, and intermediate quality of life. More than half of the participants were included in the intermediate quality of life cluster, with mean sense-of-well-being scores approximating the sample as a whole, and the remaining participants were divided between the balanced and low quality of life clusters. Discriminant analysis, followed by univariate analyses of variance, indicated that the three quality of life clusters could be differentiated on the basis of WOCQ scores, with participants in the low quality of life cluster indicating greater use of escape-avoidance coping strategies relative to the other two cluster. A second discriminant analysis, also followed by univariate analyses of variance, indicated that the quality of life clusters could also be differentiated on the basis of the three virtue factors from the character strengths scale, with higher self-cultivation scores for participants in the balanced qualify of life cluster. Thus, evidence was found to support of relationships between quality of life of people with disabilities and both virtues and character strengths, particularly Textbooks Digital Books~~Medicine~~Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Virtue-and-character-strengths-coping-and-quality-of-life-for-people-with-chronic-illness-and-disability~~Jeong-Han-Kim ProQuest LLC<