Are Europeans flourishing? Felicia Huppert and Timothy So analyzed data from 43,000 adult Europeans comprising 22 nations in the European Social Survey (Round 3 - 2006/7) to determine the prevalence of flourishing, defined as people meeting a criterion similar to the flourishment PERMA-V goal here at zZense.com. Regionally, they found
Before and during a "big test", we often feel anxious. Sometimes this anxiety even becomes debilitating -- we "blank out" or "have a mind cramp" severely hurting our test performance. Research by Mendes etal may hold clues about turning the tide on anxiety and improving our test performance.
The VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) was well-crafted and has emerged as the primary instrument for gauging individual character skills (a.k.a. strengths in VIA parlance) and virtues. Over two million people have completed the VIA-IS self-assessment of their character skills using a 240-question on-line survey, resulting in a large data base. Are the 24 VIA-IS character skills the definitive skills, and are they correctly grouped into the 6 virtues?