2023 Volume 49 Issue 2 Pages 130-140
The purposes of this study were 1) to examine the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the VIA-IS (VIA-IS-J: Ohtake et al., 2005) and 2) to clarify the relationship between sport career pattern and character strength (CS) using the scale. Study 1 examined model fit, internal consistency, reproducibility, and concurrent validity based on data from 828 Japanese university students' responses to the scale. As a result, the reliability and validity of the scale were confirmed to be within acceptable limits. In the Study 2, the VIA-IS-J was used to examine the relationship between CS and sports career pattern among college students. The results showed that "courage" was significantly higher in both males and females, and "knowledge and wisdom," "human nature," and "transcendence" were significantly higher only in males than in females who had continuously engaged in the same sport in middle and high school. These results suggest the reliability and validity of the VIA-IS-J and the relationship between sports career pattern and CS.
