Exam 10: Virtue and Strength of Character

Based on his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II, Victor Frankl came to believe that the ability of people to survive the horrors of the death camps depended on their ability to

As defined by the Values in Action Project, wisdom refers to

In Allport's analysis, the relationship between religion and prejudice depends upon whether a person

Surveys show that about 20% of people endorse the statement that "I am spiritual but not religious." What is distinctive about this group?

In the SOC Model of Effective Life Management developed by Baltes and his colleagues, S, O, and C refer to

"God is generally impersonal and distant. I frequently feel he doesn't care very much about me and may not like me." People who agree with this statement have what type of attachment style?

Some people believe that personal tragedies represent God's punishment for their sins and some people wait passively wait for God's solutions to their problems. According to research by Pargament and his colleagues, each of these examples represent

Baumeister and Exline argue that the Seven Deadly Sins (e.g., gluttony, greed, lust, anger) result from

Overall, what have researchers concluded about the well-being benefits of religion?

The major goal of the Values in Action Project was

Baby boomers have been described as the "sandwich generation" because they are "sandwiched" between the needs and demands of their own children and those of their aging parents. According to Sternberg's balance theory of wisdom, a wise response to the sandwich generation dilemmas presented in the text example would involve

Based on five criteria, Baltes and his colleagues, who developed the Berlin model of wisdom, define wisdom as

In studies evaluating the extent to which people follow and endorse the SOC model in their own lives, Baltes and his colleagues have found that higher levels of endorsement are

To measure wisdom, Baltes and his colleagues use trained judge's evaluation of people's responses to various life dilemmas. In one study using the life dilemma measure, Baltes and Kunzman asked whether wise people are happier than the less wise. Results from their study found that

A person who has good self-control, avoids excesses, and "looks before he or she leaps" would fit the virtue of

Baumeister and Exline argue that one of the most important functions of virtue and morality is to

Does the average person see a distinction between wisdom, intelligence, creativity, and sheer fame? When researchers asked people to nominate historic and contemporary exemplars of these characteristics they found that the answer to this question was

When Pargament and his colleagues asked college students and clergy members to rate the degree of religiousness of 100 profiles of hypothetical people they found

The Signature Strengths Questionnaire was developed by Values in Action Project (VIA) researchers to measure 24 strengths of character. This questionnaire has been taken by over 350,000 people in 50 different countries. Analysis of character strengths profiles suggest that

According to Roy Baumeister, a sense of purpose, value, self-efficacy, interpretive control, and self-worth represent