Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Values in Action Youth Survey (VIA Youth Survey) is an open-access Likert survey for children ages 10-17 measuring 24 character strengths within the broad categories Courage, Humanity, Justice, Temperance, Transcendence, and Wisdom. It has both a 96- and 198- item version, and it has been adapted into many other languages and shorter forms. Values in Action also makes adult character strength surveys and other assessments for younger children such as the Character Strengths Inventory for Children (CSI-C) and the Character Strengths Inventory for Early Childhood (CSI-EC) for children ages 7-12 and 3-6, respectively. Subscore(s): Appreciation of Beauty, Bravery, Creativity, Curiosity, Fairness, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Honesty, Hope, Humility, Humor, Judgment, Kindness, Leadership, Love, Love of Learning, Perseverance, Perspective, Prudence, Self-Regulation, Social Intelligence, Spirituality, Teamwork, Zest
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Relationship Skills ; Responsible Decision Making ; Self Awareness ; Self Management ; Social Awareness
Languages
English,
Spanish,
Chinese,
Arabic,
Armenian,
Danish,
Dutch,
Farsi (Persian),
Filipino,
Finnish,
French,
German,
Greek,
Hebrew,
Hungarian,
Indonesian,
Italian,
Japanese,
Korean,
Latvian,
Norwegian,
Polish,
Portuguese (Brazil),
Portuguese (Portugal),
Russian,
Slovenian,
Swedish,
Thai,
Turkish,
Urdu
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
15 minutes
Administration
Computer
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
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/10.1080/03057240.2016.1213709Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2006). Moral competence and character strengths among adolescents: The development and validation of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth. Journal of Adolescence, 29(6), 891-909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2006.04.011Shogren, K. A., Shaw, L. A., Raley, S. K., Wehmeyer, M. L., Niemiec, R. M., & Adkins, M. (2018). Assessing character strengths in youth with intellectual disability: Reliability and factorial validity of the VIA-Youth. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 56(1), 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-56.1.13Shogren, K. A., Wehmeyer, M. L., Lang, K., Niemiec, R. M., & Seo, H. (2017). The application of the VIA Classification of Strengths to youth with and without disabilities. Inclusion, 5(3), 213-228. https://doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-5.3.213van Eeden, C., Wissing, M. P., Dreyer, J., Park, N., & Peterson, C. (2008). Validation of the values in action inventory of strengths for youth (VIA-Youth) among South African learners. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 18(1), 143-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2008.10820181
