The VIA Character Strengths Survey

Get to know your greatest strengths.

Why take the survey?

The VIA Survey is the only free, scientific survey of character strengths in the world. Take this simple, 10 minute character test and discover your greatest strengths. Research shows that knowing and using your character strengths can help you:

  • Increase happiness and well-being

  • Find meaning and purpose

  • Boost relationships

  • Manage stress and health

  • Accomplish goals

Why Do Character Strengths Matter?

Character strengths are the positive parts of your personality that make you feel authentic and engaged. You possess all 24 character strengths in different degrees, giving you a unique character strengths profile. Research shows that understanding and applying your strengths can help:

  • Boost Confidence

  • Increase Happiness

  • Strengthen Relationships

  • Manage Problems

  • Reduce Stress

  • Accomplish Goals

  • Build Meaning and Purpose

  • Improve Work Performance

Discover your greatest qualities and begin using your strengths to build your best life.

Get to Know Your Strengths

The VIA Survey of Character Strengths is a free self-assessment that takes 10 minutes and provides a wealth of information to help you understand your best qualities. VIA Reports provide personalized, in-depth analysis of your free results, including actionable tips to apply your strengths to find greater well-being.

Take Your Strengths Assessment

  • Team report

    Explore the Strengths of a Group

    The VIA Team Report combines the Character Strengths Profiles for multiple individuals into one comprehensive report of the team's strengths.

    This report is perfect for anyone working with a group of individuals that would like to better understand and utilise the team's unique configuration of character strengths and how to use strengths to create a more cohesive, satisfied and productive team.

    This report provides multiple perspectives so you can explore the strengths of the group, as well as the unique strengths that each person brings to the team

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  • Individual 24 Report

    Your Unique 24

    Discover what science says about your true self, and how you interact with others and operate in the world, with the Total 24 Character Strengths Report. This report is based on your free VIA Survey results and is the key to understanding your positive personality.

    Do You Know the Real You?

    The Total 24 Report dives deep into all 24 of your strengths with an analysis of the signature strengths that are essential to making you ‘you’, insight into how others perceive you and exploration of your middle and lesser strengths—and simple ways you can leverage and boost them

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