Does the Excellent Enactment of Highest Strengths Reveal Virtues?

Two studies examined the assumption that character strengths enable virtues and facilitate the good life. Study 1 validated a "layperson's excellent enactment of highest strengths paradigm". This paradigm states that more appropriate assignments of character strengths to virtues are obtained when based on descriptions of highest character strengths enacted in an excellent way, than when based on lowest character strengths, or typical enactments. A sample of N = 230 German-speaking participants provided descriptions of situations in which they enacted their highest and lowest strengths excellently and typically and rated these situations on the degree of the six core virtues, strength expression, fulfillment, and intellectual and moral quality. Behavior examples of highest strengths excellently enacted were rated higher and with higher differentiation in the dependent variables than typical enactments or lowest strengths, thus confirming the paradigm. In Study 2, we applied the paradigm: A second sample of N = 113 German-speaking participants rated a selected subset of strengths-behaviors of layperson's excellent enactment of highest strengths collected in Study 1 in regard to their degree of the six core virtues. Results confirmed previous convergent and discrepant findings with the theoretical VIA classification. We can conclude that the excellent enactment of highest strengths does indeed reveal virtues. Future studies should use the paradigm and examine culturally diverse samples with different methods for further examining the VIA classification.

Positive Significance of Confucianism on Moral Construction of College Counselors / 中国医学伦理学

In this paper, from the angle of Confucianism culture and contemporary reality, the authors dis-cussed the counselors should have professional ethics quality requirements, puts forward the counselor should have the heart of benevolence, should be tas agentlemannotbe insatiable in learning and teaching, should have the thought ofthe world rise and fall, fortunes ofstate in an effort to promote the counselor′s professional ethics quality of thinking and suggestion.

The Experience and Consideration in the Cultivation of Orthodontics Graduate Students / 中华医学教育探索杂志

More people focus on the cultivation quality of graduate students.The performance of moral character is a very important aspect in all-round performance of college students.It is a definite option to develop moral character in the course of performance education.Scientific quality is also very important.

Introduction Course of Mao zedong Thought and Quality Education of Medical Student / 中国医学伦理学

The thought mainstream of contemporary medical students is steady and healthy,positive and upward,but there still exists some morality-degradating phenomena,such as indifferent service,weaking responsibility,etc.Therefore,the introduction course of Mao Zedong thought should bring its educational fuction into full use,publicize the revolutionary humanitarianism,and cultivate medical students'noble moral realm to prodce qualified constructor and successor for the socialist hearth care industry.