Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence: Relationship with Personality, Prosociality and Well-Being

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• 作者：María Luisa Martínez-Martí ; María José Hernández-Lloreda…
• 关键词：Appreciation of beauty and excellence ; Character strengths ; Positive psychology ; Well ; being ; Prosociality ; Personality
• 刊名：Journal of Happiness Studies
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：6
• 页码：2613-2634
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Quality of Life Research; Personality and Social Psychology; Economics, general; Quality of Life Research; Philosophy, general; Positive Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7780
• 卷排序：17

文摘

Appreciation of beauty and excellence (ABE) is one of the least studied character strengths. Therefore, this study aims at advancing the knowledge in this area by (1) developing a scale that measures the three categories of appreciation (i.e., beauty, moral excellence, and non-moral excellence), (2) assessing many of its psychometric properties, and (3) examining the relationship of ABE with personality, prosociality, and well-being. In Study 1, we create and assess an initial set of items measuring ABE. In Study 2, we examine the dimensionality of ABE, and test the internal consistency and validity of the scale. Moreover, we assess the relationships between ABE and personality, prosociality and well-being. In Study 3, we test the temporal stability of the scale. Results revealed that a three-dimensional model of ABE showed the best fit to the data. The scale showed good validity (construct, factorial, incremental) and reliability (internal and temporal). Finally, ABE yielded positive associations with prosociality and well-being, and demonstrated to be more than a linear combination of the Big Five factors of personality.