Exam 3: Classifications and Measures of Strengths and Positive Outcomes

If someone needed to choose a manual that helps provide a common language for strengths, like diagnostic manuals, which of the following should they choose?

Researchers have been shown to mistakenly believe that because their measure has linguistic equivalence it also has ______.

What do the authors indicate is needed to have a more competent cultural understanding of strengths?

The translation of a measure into another language is called ______.

What is the difference in an individual that is said to be flourishing and an individual that is said to be languishing?

Which of the following best describes the contrast between nomothetic and idiographic differences in people?

Cross-cultural studies on measures of psychological strengths have indicated that ______.

Romantic love is defined as a spiritual love that entails of selflessness and altruism.

What is included in the objective approach to well-being?

What does the use of strengths predict on an individual basis?

Clifton StrengthsFinder results can be compared on an individual basis.

Which of the following terms best applies to someone who is experiencing high levels of emotional, psychological, and social well-being?

Which of these is a component of social well-being?

During an intake with a client, a therapist takes note that the client does not appear to have any indication of mental illness. However, the therapist does note that the client has described having a low degree of life satisfaction, little sense of a purpose in life, and the client feels as though they have not contributed much to their community. Explain which areas of well-being that these descriptions belong to, along with whether the client should be described as flourishing or languishing.

The difficulty in measuring variations in strengths is due in part to cultural differences in defining these strengths.

Which of the following is a dimension of psychological well-being?

Which group(s) contributed to the early practice of classifying disorders in 2600 BC?

Objective well-being depends on someone's appraisal of their own life.

Who among the following people should take the Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth?

Regarding employment settings, what can be the effect of learning multicultural competence at an early age?