Thank you for your interest in the VIA strengths and their measurement.
The scales have good reliability and accumulating validity, but the
creators of the measures, Christopher Peterson and Nansook Park,
are still developing and refining them. To this end, they invite your
collaboration in the investigation of character strengths. Their goals
are to coordinate different research projects and to maintain a broad
overview and oversight of work at this critical juncture in the VIA project.
If you are a researcher who is interested in such collaboration,
complete the Request Form to Use VIA Inventory of Strengths
(VIA Survey) in your research.
We want the VIA inventories to be used in their entirety, in
adequately-powered studies addressing novel issues, and with
research participants who can plausibly complete self-report surveys.
Subject to approval by VIA, researchers will be provided with a
research code whereby the subjects of the study can complete the
appropriate VIA Inventory on-line, and the data will then be provided
to the researcher.
Should you require additional measures on the VIA site, please
contact us at kellya@viacharacter.org.