This study examines how pre-service teachers use character strengths language to understand and support their wellbeing during professional experience. The project responds to the persistent challenge of teacher stress and early burnout by reframing placement as a context for developing wellbeing capability rather than merely demonstrating competency. Guided by strengths-based pedagogy, the study investigates how strengths are combined, moderated, and occasionally brought into tension as pre-service teachers navigate the demands of learning to teach. A qualitative design was employed, drawing on reflective narratives from 1,066 pre-service teachers across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Thematic analysis explored how participants articulated strengths synergies, collisions, and the developing capacity to orchestrate strengths in context. Findings show that strengths rarely operate in isolation. Pre-service teachers reported dynamic interactions in which strengths amplified one another, conflicted under pressure, or required deliberate recalibration. These patterns revealed emerging wellbeing literacy, characterised by the ability to comprehend and compose wellbeing through intentional strengths use. The study offers original insight into strengths as pedagogical language and as a means of cultivating sustainable professional practice. It demonstrates the value of embedding strengths-based reflection across professional experience and highlights the importance of supporting teachers to recognise both resources and vulnerabilities within their strengths profiles.
Social support and self-compassion are well-established predictors of resilience. However, common humanity—a subcomponent of self-compassion related to social support that involves recognizing the universality of painful experiences—has received comparatively little attention in resilience research. This scoping review mapped the empirical literature on common humanity and resilience, synthesized evidence of their associations, and examined definitions and conceptualizations of both constructs. A search strategy was developed and executed across seven databases. Titles/abstracts and full texts were independently screened by three reviewers. Data from 40 studies meeting the inclusion criteria were extracted and summarized. Among the 4,353 references identified, findings from 40 included studies demonstrated a consistent positive relationship between common humanity and resilience, with greater common humanity associated with more effective coping, adaptation, and recovery from adversity. This association was observed across geographic locations, research types, study populations, sample sizes, and forms of adversity, as well as across diverse definitions and conceptualizations of both constructs. Nevertheless, the nature of the relationship varied depending on the constructs examined, the adversity studied, the underlying mechanisms, and the conceptualizations of common humanity. These findings elucidate the association between common humanity and resilience while identifying the factors that shape this relationship. This review advances understanding of common humanity and resilience by identifying conceptual and methodological gaps, offering a foundation for future research, and informing interventions that leverage common humanity to enhance resilience. A review protocol was developed a priori and registered on the Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io/rby8e/ ).
The Self-Concordance Model posits that autonomously motivated goal pursuit is a primary driver of well-being, yet standard measurement practices often conflate the presence of autonomy with the absence of external pressure via relative difference scores. Using a high-powered dataset (N = 429), this study tested a Balance Model against an Autonomous-Primary Model. Using Bayesian structural equation modeling and directed acyclic graphs, the analyses indicated that the goal self-concordance difference score can obscure whether associations with meaning are driven by autonomous motivation, reduced controlled motivation, or both. Autonomous motivation was the sole robust motivational predictor of meaning in life judgments, whereas the goal self-concordance score contributed no unique variance when both were entered simultaneously. A functional dissociation emerged in which controlled motivation robustly predicted distress symptoms, while showing no unique association with meaning once distress covariates were included. The latent correlation between autonomous and controlled motivation was near zero (r = − .09), consistent with their status as largely orthogonal constructs rather than opposite ends of a continuum. There was no evidence that controlled motivation moderated the association between autonomous motication and meaning. In this sample, the findings challenge the subtractive logic embedded in traditional self-concordance measurement and suggest that meaning in life is associated with autonomous direction rather than motivational balance.
Studies have found that emotional regulation strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal, hold promise for helping people develop patience. To better understand these strategies and their role in patience development, we conducted in-depth, in-person interviews of 177 undergraduate students from eight four-year institutions, including three public, two private secular, and three private faith-based institutions from different geographical regions. We sought to discover the diversity of students’ thinking and actions using thematic analysis during what they perceived were successful practices of patience within the collegiate context. Our findings confirmed the three previously categorized major types of patience: interpersonal, life hardships, and daily hassles, with interpersonal comprising 88
Resilience is a key psychological construct associated with adaptation and recovery from adversity. The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10) is a widely used brief measure, but no validated Bangla version of it existed for use in Bangladesh. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Bangla version of the CD-RISC-10 for measuring adults’ resilience. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 445 participants (233 male and 212 female students; age range 19–26 years) at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. The CD-RISC-10 was translated into Bangla using the forward–backward method under the ITC Guidelines. Data analyses included descriptive statistics, internal consistency (Cronbach’s α, McDonald’s ω), item-total correlations, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), two-parameter graded response model (GRM) under IRT assumptions (unidimensionality, local independence, and monotonicity), measurement invariance across gender, and correlations for concurrent validity. The Bangla version of CD-RISC-10 demonstrated excellent internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.89, McDonald’s ω = 0.89) and good test–retest reliability (ICC = 0.77). CFA supported a unidimensional structure with good fit indices. Measurement invariance analyses confirmed configural, metric, scalar, and strict invariance across gender. The scale showed significant negative correlations with PTSD (r = –.148), depression (r = –.414), anxiety (r = –.261), and stress (r = –.318). The Bangla version of CD-RISC-10 is a reliable and valid measure of resilience for Bangladeshi adults, suitable for research and non-clinical use.
