Research on virtues and character strengths has increased over the last decade. A total of 283 young participants from Portugal completed a measure of character strengths (Furnham and Lester in Eur J Psychol Assess 28:95–101, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2012</CitationRef>) grounded on the values in action inventory of strengths...</citationref>

We present a comprehensive model that integrates virtues, values, character strengths and ethical decision making (EDM). We describe how a largely consequentialist ethical framework has dominated most EDM scholarship to date. We suggest that reintroducing a virtue ethical perspective to existing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership style of Muhammad (p) within a character‐centric framework as a useful alternative to the transactional, self‐centered model and the value‐neutral transformational approach that currently permeate business management. The...

Positive psychology is an approach within psychology that takes seriously as a subject matter those things that make life most worth living. It calls for as much focus on strengths, as on weaknesses and as much attention to fulfilling the lives of healthy people, as to healing the wounds of the...

Positive psychology is an approach within psychology that takes seriously as a subject matter those things that make life most worth living. It calls for as much focus on strengths, as on weaknesses and as much attention to fulfilling the lives of healthy people, as to healing the wounds of the...