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Personal Strengths of Russian Teachers in VIA Model: Approbation of the Russian-Language Version of the Questionnaire “Values in Action Inventory of Strengths” (VIA – IS120)
Alexey A. Stavtsev
Research Analyst of the Center for Socialization, Family and Prevention of Antisocial Behavior Research, Assistant of the Department of Psychology of Education and Prevention of Deviant Behavior, Moscow Pedagogical State University (1/1 Malaya Pirogovskaya St., Moscow 119991, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7299-5017, Scopus ID: 57219288519, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Arthur A. Rean
Head of the Center for Socialization, Family and Prevention of Antisocial Behavior Research, Head of the Department of Psychology of Education and Prevention of Deviant Behavior, Moscow Pedagogical State University (1/1 Malaya Pirogovskaya St., Moscow 119991, Russian Federation), Chairman of the Scientific Coordination Council of the Russian Academy of Education (RAO) on Family and Childhood Issues, Dr.Sci. (Psychol.), Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1107-9530, Scopus ID: 6507072773, Researcher ID: A-5349-2015, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Roman G. Kuzmin
Research Analyst of the Center for Socialization, Family and Prevention of Antisocial Behavior Research, Assistant of the Department of Psychology of Education and Prevention of Deviant Behavior, Moscow Pedagogical State University (1/1 Malaya Pirogovskaya St., Moscow 119991, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8851-5313, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
Introduction. Positive psychology is one of the most rapidly developing directions of psychological science in the world. Over the past two decades, a large number of empirical researches confirm effectiveness and validity of theoretical studies and practical methods used in the framework of positive psychology. Unfortunately, there is a lack of research in this area in the Russian-speaking scientific community, despite of the presence of high-level scientific teams and individual researchers working in the framework of positive psychology. Probably an important factor in the “low popularity” of positive psychology among Russian authors is the lack of large-scale studies on wide samples of Russian respondents. The purpose of this article is to empirically confirm, the legitimacy of the practical application of the “VIA” model. As well as perform approbation, validation and publication of the Russian-language version of the questionnaire by K. Peterson and M. Seligman “Values in Action Inventory of Strengths” in Russian we suggest more reflecting the essence of the questionnaire name – “24 strengths of the personality”.
Materials and Methods. The approbation was carried out on a wide sample of respondents from the professional sphere of education (N = 7 946), using statistical methods for checking the reliability of the questionnaire, including convergent validity and confirmatory factor analysis.
Results. The reliability tests showed significant validity results, indicating the reliability of the psychometric tool. The scales of the Russian-language version of the VIA-IS questionnaire show more than sufficient internal consistency, The convergent validity test showed significant correlations with the following scales: Life Satisfaction Scale, Self-Esteem Scale, General Self-Efficiency Scale, and Professional Burnout (Maslach’s). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the factorial structure of the questionnaire. We manage to meet the desirable “cut-off” model fit parameters of Confirmatory factor analysis.
Discussion and Conclusion. Hopefully, publication of this Russian-language questionnaire will lead to an increase interest for research in the field of positive psychology in the Russian scientific community. The conclusions made by the authors contribute to the development of theoretical concepts of positive psychology, confirming the general structural integrity and practical validity of the model “VIA”. Moreover, this article provides for open use in the Russian scientific psychological community a universal psychometric technique in form of questionnaire with empirically proven reliability on a wide sample of respondents.
Keywords: positive psychology, strengths and virtues, VIA questionnaire, researcher tools, psychological well-being
Funding: The study was conducted as the state assignment for the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on the development of a scientific topic “Moderation of the processes of upbringing, socialization and prevention of asocial behavior of children and adolescents in the context of positive psychological interventions” No. 121 081 20 00 35-9 (2021).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
For citation: Stavtsev A.A., Rean A.A., Kuzmin R.G. Personal Strengths of Russian Teachers in VIA Model: Approbation of the Russian-Language Version of the Questionnaire “Values in Action Inventory of Strengths” (VIA – IS120). Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2021; 25(4):681-699. doi: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.105.025.202104.681-699
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 05.07.2021; approved after reviewing 16.09.2021;
accepted for publication 27.09.2021.
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