Assessment of Human Virtues and Strengths in Spanish-Speaking Population

Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the positive subjective experiences, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. Understanding positive individual traits consists of the study of the character strengths and virtues. After a long hiatus, the study of moral character has started up again in scientific psychology. The development of an assessment instrument of the character strengths and virtues based upon the Peterson and Seligman character classification of 6 virtues and 24 strengths is presented [Peterson, C. & Seligman, M.E.P. (2004). Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association; Oxford University Press.]. Preliminary psychometric analyses of the Inventario de Virtudes y Fortalezas (IVyF) suggest this inventory demonstrates reasonable reliability and factor structure.