Culture-specific Subjective Evaluation of Character Strengths

The study presented in the paper was focused on character strengths which can be viewed as a positive personal resource for young people's personal and professional development from the positive psychology perspective. Region-specific and culture-specific character strengths profiles were obtained based on the study sample (young people from Russia (three subsamples) and Kazakhstan) and then analyzed in terms of the difference between the study participants’ actual self (subjective evaluation of their character strengths) and ideal self (how significant these character strengths were).