Research on the Character Strength and Related Influencing Factors of Adolescent

Objective: (1) to investigate the university students’the characteristics of character strength and the Trans- Culture comparison; (2) To discuss the Adolescent’ character difference among different mental health status of Adolescent. Methods: Value In Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS),SCL-90 was administrated to a random sample of 502undergraduate students. Results: (1) The 24 Character Strengths scored between 3~4, the average score was from 3.25 (faith) to 3.93 (honest); (2) for the 24 character strength, Chinese men make a score from3.22 (spirituality) ~3.96 (honesty), the English scores from 2.77 (spirituality)~3.95(judgment),Chinese men scores higher, and the Chinese women scores from 3.19(perspective~3.93(love), the English female is from 2.90 (spirituality) ~3.97 (kindness). The scores are almost the same, as well as the graphic display tendency; (3) There are significant differences between Adolescent with good state of mind and Character Strengths and worse psychological health students in 10 character strengths such as Courage, tolerance, honesty, hope, etc. (p< 0.05) Conclusion: (1) university students’ character strength develops in the medium.(2) character strength distribution has the Trans-Culture uniformity.(3) the good psychological health students have better characters than worse psychological health students.