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overuse and underuse of character strengths: a standalone construct

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Positive psychology

the idea that character strengths can be used too little or too much rather than optimally, and that such misuse relates to difficulties such as social anxiety.

In positive psychology, overuse and underuse of character strengths refers to the idea that character strengths can be used too little or too much rather than optimally, and that such misuse relates to difficulties such as social anxiety. This meaning comes from Freidlin (2017) in Personality and Individual Differences.[1]

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character4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructssocial anxiety1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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  1. Freidlin, P., Littman-Ovadia, H., & Niemiec, R. M. (2017). Positive psychopathology: Social anxiety via character strengths underuse and overuse. Personality and Individual Differences, 108, 50-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.12.003

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