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Overview

Nansook Park is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domains of social sciences and psychology, with a focus on education and related subfields.

The main fields of study represented in their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, the subfields addressed by Park's publications cover:

  • Education
  • Safety Research
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Philosophy

The research topics frequently explored encompass:

  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Education Practices and Challenges
  • Education and Teacher Training

Park's recent papers demonstrate a focus on youth and teacher development, wellbeing, and educational engagement. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Positive Youth Development Among Youth Living in Poverty: The Role of Psychological Needs Satisfaction" (2021, Youth & Society)
  • "#ArmMeWith: Resources for Teacher Wellbeing" (2021, International Journal of Wellbeing)
  • "Examining Teacher Well-Being: An Analysis of Resources Needs" (2024, International Journal of Changes in Education)
  • "Does school kindness lead to greater school engagement? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence in the Philippine context" (2023, The Journal of Positive Psychology)
  • "Self-efficacy and work stress among U.S. preschool teachers: the mediating role of anxiety" (2025, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Park include:

  • Christina Costa
  • Fabio Alivernini
  • Dora Bianchi
  • Elisa Cavicchiolo
  • Sara Manganelli

Park's work is regularly published in scholarly journals such as:

  • Youth & Society
  • International Journal of Wellbeing
  • International Journal of Changes in Education
  • The Journal of Positive Psychology
  • Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education

Best Publications

  • Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions.

    Martin E. P. Seligman;Tracy A. Steen;Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER AND WELL-BEING

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: The full life versus the empty life.

    Christopher Peterson;Nansook Park;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • The Role of Subjective Well-Being in Positive Youth Development

    Nansook Park

  • Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction

    Christopher Peterson;Willibald Ruch;Ursula Beermann;Nansook Park

  • Moral competence and character strengths among adolescents: The development and validation of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Character strengths in fifty-four nations and the fifty US states

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Character Strengths: Research and Practice

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Strengths of character and posttraumatic growth.

    Christopher Peterson;Nansook Park;Nnamdi Pole;Wendy D'Andrea

  • Character strengths and happiness among young children: Content analysis of parental descriptions.

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Greater strengths of character and recovery from illness

    Christopher Peterson;Nansook Park;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Character Strengths Predict Subjective Well-Being During Adolescence

    Jane Gillham;Zoe Adams-Deutsch;Jaclyn Werner;Karen Reivich

  • Positive Psychology and Character Strengths: Application to Strengths-Based School Counseling.

    Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Zest and work

    Christopher Peterson;Nansook Park;Nicholas Hall;Martin E. P. Seligman

  • Character Strengths and Positive Youth Development

    Nansook Park

  • Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS): Adaptation and Validation of the German Version and the Development of a Peer-Rating Form

    Willibald Ruch;René T. Proyer;Claudia Harzer;Nansook Park

  • Character strengths in the United Kingdom: The VIA Inventory of Strengths

    P. Alex Linley;John Maltby;Alex M. Wood;Stephen Joseph

  • Military children and families: strengths and challenges during peace and war.

    Nansook Park

  • Convergence of Character Strengths in American and Japanese Young Adults

    Satoshi Shimai;Keiko Otake;Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Three ways to be happy: Pleasure, engagement, and meaning - Findings from Australian and US samples

    Dianne Anne Vella-Brodrick;Nansook Park;Christopher Peterson

  • Positive Organizational Scholarship

    Christopher Peterson;Nansook Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Peterson
Christopher Peterson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martin E. P. Seligman
Martin E. P. Seligman University of Pennsylvania
E. Scott Huebner
E. Scott Huebner University of South Carolina
Jane E. Gillham
Jane E. Gillham Swarthmore College
Willibald Ruch
Willibald Ruch University of Zurich
Rich Gilman
Rich Gilman Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Robert F. Valois
Robert F. Valois University of South Carolina
Corey L. M. Keyes
Corey L. M. Keyes Emory University
William Damon
William Damon Stanford University

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