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Brief Report: Character Strengths in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Impairment

Auteurs: Jennifer Kirchner, Willibald Ruch, Isabel Dziobek

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 10/2016

Abstract

In the current study, we assessed character strengths in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD, n = 32) and neurotypical controls (n = 32) using the Values in Action Inventory (VIA-IS, Peterson and Seligman 2004) and explored associations with levels of satisfaction with life (SWL). The most frequently endorsed signature strengths (i.e., five top-ranked strengths within an individual’s strength ranking) were emotional (humour, love) and interpersonal strengths (kindness, fairness) in the control group, the most frequently endorsed signature strengths in the ASD group were intellectual strengths (open-mindedness, creativity, love of learning). Interpersonal and emotional strengths had, however, the highest positive associations with SWL in the ASD group.

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Controls in our and Samson and Antonellis study (2013) had comparable associations between character strengths and SWL with previous work (Peterson et al. 2007; Ruch et al. 2010), (i.e., hope, zest, persistence, perspective were among those character strengths with the strongest associations with SWL).

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Titel: Brief Report: Character Strengths in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Without Intellectual Impairment
Auteurs: Jennifer Kirchner
Willibald Ruch
Isabel Dziobek
Publicatiedatum: 25-07-2016
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 10/2016
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2865-7

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