VIA Youth-96
The VIA Youth- 96 was derived by selecting from the original 198-item survey the 4 items per scale with the highest corrected item-total correlations. Language adjustments were then made for clarity. Mean internal consistency has been determined across two samples to be .86 and correlation with life satisfaction to be .36. Correlation with the long form (VIA-Y-198) is estimated at .84 on average across scales.
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VIA Youth-96 Psychometrics
| Strength | α |
|---|---|
| Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence | 0.86 |
| Bravery | 0.91 |
| Creativity | 0.90 |
| Curiosity | 0.83 |
| Fairness | 0.85 |
| Forgiveness | 0.87 |
| Gratitude | 0.81 |
| Honesty | 0.84 |
| Hope | 0.87 |
| Humility | 0.83 |
| Humor | 0.93 |
| Judgment | 0.89 |
| Kindness | 0.83 |
| Leadership | 0.93 |
| Love | 0.84 |
| Love of Learning | 0.93 |
| Perseverance | 0.87 |
| Perspective | 0.82 |
| Prudence | 0.79 |
| Self-Regulation | 0.75 |
| Social Intelligence | 0.69 |
| Spirituality | 0.95 |
| Teamwork | 0.85 |
| Zest | 0.89 |
| M | 0.86 |
VIA Youth- 96 Citation
McGrath, R. E., & Walker, D. I. (2016). Factor structure of character strengths in youth: Consistency across ages and measures. Journal of Moral Education, 45(4), 400–418. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2016.1213709
VIA Youth- 96 Languages
The VIA Youth- 96 has been translated into the following languages. The languages marked with an asterisk (*) are still considered "in development" because not enough survey takers have completed it to determine if the translation is reliable or alphas for some scales are below .60. Click the language below to see psychometric data. Researchers should use caution when using a survey translation that is listed as "in development".
- Bulgarian*
- Chinese (Traditional-Taiwan)*
- Czech*
- Danish*
- Dutch*
- English (see above)
- Farsi (Persian)*
- Finnish
- French*
- German*
- Greek*
- Hebrew*
- Hindi*
- Hungarian*
- Italian*
- Japanese*
- Latvian*
- Malay (Bahasa Malaysia)
- Marathi*
- Norwegian*
- Portuguese (Brazil)*
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Romanian*
- Spanish*
- Swedish*
- Turkish*