Values in Action Institute (VIA) Signature Strengths Questionnaire and classification of strengths are the work of the VIA Institute
Measure the extent to which you possess various human strengths.
Your Signature Strengths:
Top Strength - Capacity to love and be loved: You value close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated. The people to whom you feel most close are the same people who feel most close to you.
On this strength, you scored as high as or higher than:
100% of all Web site users
100% of all male respondents
100% of all 25 to 34 years old
100% of occupation group AD
100% of all with your education level

Second Strength - Gratitude: You are aware of the good things that happen to you, and you never take them for granted. Your friends and family members know that you are a grateful person because you always take the time to express your thanks.
On this strength, you scored as high as or higher than:
95 % of all Web site users
95 % of all male respondents
94 % of all 25 to 34 years old
92 % of occupation group AD
92 % of all with your education level

Third Strength - Humor and playfulness: You like to laugh and tease. Bringing smiles to other people is important to you. You try to see the light side of all situations.
On this strength, you scored as high as or higher than:
94 % of all Web site users
94 % of all male respondents
95 % of all 25 to 34 years old
95 % of occupation group AD
95 % of all with your education level

Fourth Strength - Bravery and valor: You are a courageous person who does not shrink from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain. You speak up for what is right even if there is opposition. You act on your convictions.
On this strength, you scored as high as or higher than:
96 % of all Web site users
96 % of all male respondents
96 % of all 25 to 34 years old
96 % of occupation group AD
96 % of all with your education level

Fifth Strength - Forgiveness and mercy: You forgive those who have done you wrong. You always give people a second chance. Your guiding principle is mercy and not revenge.
On this strength, you scored as high as or higher than:
96 % of all Web site users
96 % of all male respondents
96 % of all 25 to 34 years old
95 % of occupation group AD
95 % of all with your education level

Research suggests that knowing about your signature strengths can make it easier to:

• Figure out what activities you most want to do
• Get the most out of your time
• Lead a happier, more satisfying life with fewer disappointments

The VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) is a face-valid self-report questionnaire intended for use with adults in the contemporary United States. The measure uses 5-point Likert-style items to measure the degree to which respondents endorse items reflecting the various strengths of character that comprise the VIA Classification System

My Top 5 Gallup Organization StrengthsFinder Test Results

Command
Command leads you to take charge. Unlike some people, you feel no discomfort with imposing your views on others. On the contrary, once your opinion is formed, you need to share it with others. Once your goal is set, you feel restless until you have aligned others with you. You are not frightened by confrontation; rather, you know that confrontation is the first step toward resolution. Whereas others may avoid facing up to life's unpleasantness, you feel compelled to present the facts or the truth, no matter how unpleasant it may be. You need things to be clear between people and challenge them to be clear-eyed and honest. You push them to take risks. You may even intimidate them. And while some may resent this, labeling you opinionated, they often willingly hand you the reins. People are drawn toward those who take a stance and ask them to move in a certain direction. Therefore, people will be drawn to you. You have presence. You have Command.

Communication
You like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write. This is your Communication theme at work. Ideas are a dry beginning. Events are static. You feel a need to bring them to life, to energize them, to make them exciting and vivid. And so you turn events into stories and practice telling them. You take the dry idea and enliven it with images and examples and metaphors. You believe that most people have a very short attention span. They are bombarded by information, but very little of it survives. You want your information-whether an idea, an event, a product's features and benefits, a discovery, or a lesson-to survive. You want to divert their attention toward you and then capture it, lock it in. This is what drives your hunt for the perfect phrase. This is what draws you toward dramatic words and powerful word combinations. This is why people like to listen to you. Your word pictures pique their interest, sharpen their world, and inspire them to act.

Woo
Woo stands for winning others over. You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people and getting them to like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On the contrary, strangers can be energizing. You are drawn to them. You want to learn their names, ask them questions, and find some area of common interest so that you can strike up a conversation and build rapport. Some people shy away from starting up conversations because they worry about running out of things to say. You don't. Not only are you rarely at a loss for words; you actually enjoy initiating with strangers because you derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection. Once that connection is made, you are quite happy to wrap it up and move on. There are new people to meet, new rooms to work, new crowds to mingle in. In your world there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet-lots of them.

Maximizer
Excellence, not average, is your measure. Taking something from below average to slightly above average takes a great deal of effort and in your opinion is not very rewarding. Transforming something strong into something superb takes just as much effort but is much more thrilling. Strengths, whether yours or someone else's, fascinate you. Like a diver after pearls, you search them out, watching for the telltale signs of a strength. A glimpse of untutored excellence, rapid learning, a skill mastered without recourse to steps-all these are clues that a strength may be in play. And having found a strength, you feel compelled to nurture it, refine it, and stretch it toward excellence. You polish the pearl until it shines. This natural sorting of strengths means that others see you as discriminating. You choose to spend time with people who appreciate your particular strengths. Likewise, you are attracted to others who seem to have found and cultivated their own strengths. You tend to avoid those who want to fix you and make you well rounded. You don't want to spend your life bemoaning what you lack. Rather, you want to capitalize on the gifts with which you are blessed. It's more fun. It's more productive. And, counterintuitively, it is more demanding.

Input
You are inquisitive. You collect things. You might collect information-words, facts, books, and quotations-or you might collect tangible objects such as butterflies, baseball cards, porcelain dolls, or sepia photographs. Whatever you collect, you collect it because it interests you. And yours is the kind of mind that finds so many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not necessarily to refine your theories but, rather, to add more information to your archives. If you like to travel, it is because each new location offers novel artifacts and facts. These can be acquired and then stored away. Why are they worth storing? At the time of storing it is often hard to say exactly when or why you might need them, but who knows when they might become useful? With all those possible uses in mind, you really don't feel comfortable throwing anything away. So you keep acquiring and compiling and filing stuff away. It's interesting. It keeps your mind fresh. And perhaps one day some of it will prove valuable.

In the early 1950s, Donald O. Clifton, who would go on to be named the "Father of Strengths Psychology," noticed a major problem: The field of psychology was based almost entirely on the study of what is wrong with people. He wondered if it would be more important to study what is right with people.

So, over the next five decades, Don and his colleagues at The Gallup Organization took a very close look at the talents of highly successful people, focusing on the positive instead of the negative. Millions of in-depth interviews were conducted to determine the most natural thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of "the best of the best." They quickly discovered that our talents do more than make us unique individuals. When we follow our talents - the ways in which we naturally think, feel, and behave - they also serve as our best opportunities for true excellence.

Transgression-Related Interpersonal Motivations Inventory developed by Michael McCullough and colleagues.
How forgiving are you?/How satisfied are you with the past?
Your Scores: 7 Avoidance; 5 Revenge
(Range: 35 to 7 Avoid., 25 to 5 Revenge -- Lower scores are better)
This empirical study on forgiveness examines the importance of affective phenomena like empathy (the tendency to experience sympathy in response to the perceived plight of a transgressor), and relational quantities such as closeness, commitment, and satisfaction, as determinants of the extent to which people will forgive individuals who commit transgressions against them.

Attachment Style Questionnaire developed by R. Chris Fraley, Niels G. Waller, & Kelly A. Brennan.

How do you relate to others in the context of emotionally intimate relationships?
Your Scores: 1.17 Anxiety; 1.00 Avoidance
(Range: 7 to 1 Anxiety, 7 to 1 Avoidance -- Lower scores are better)
You fall into the secure quadrant. Previous research on attachment styles indicates that secure people tend to have relatively enduring and satisfying relationships. They are comfortable expressing their emotions, and tend not to suffer from depression and other psychological disorders. These are the people that find it easy to get close to their lovers and are comfortable depending on them. They are not preoccupied by thoughts of being abandoned. Nor do they often worry about people getting too close to them. Characteristics of the secure attachment style include: